Summary 4 members from each committee will meet Taliban Shura in Miranshah, ceasefire likely.
LAHORE (Dunya News) – Four members from both government and Taliban committees will meet in Miranshah in next two days for ‘direct dialogue’ in which ceasefire announcement is highly likely, Dunya News reported on Saturday.
Major (r) Amir and Rahimullah Yousafzai from government committee, and Professor Ibrahim and Yousaf Shah from Taliban committee will be in the convoy that will meet Taliban in next two days.
The direct-dialogue meeting is expected to deliver breakthrough results including a likely ceasefire announcement from Taliban side.
It is pertinent to mention here that religious leaders’ peace conference in Lahore on Saturday was attended by over two hundred clerics who urged the government and Taliban to ceasefire ‘in the name of God’.
The religious leaders’ convention declaration had said that negotiation is the sole solution to the problem and that military operation will become the source of unstoppable bloodshed in the country. Clerics also appealed the nation to observe ‘prayer day’ on February 21.
