ISLAMABAD - Chairman Pakistan Tahrik-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan said that the federal government should take up the issue of drone attacks in the United Nation Security Council (UNSC0 as per its promised in the All Parties Conference (APC).
Talking to the media after PTI core committee meeting, Imran said that the federal government should hold dialogue with the Taliban otherwise the situation would further aggravate in future. "The PTI believes in dialogue to give peace a chance. This is the only way to identify those groups that wish dialogue for peace and isolate those elements believing in violence and terror," he added. He said that many of these groups were funded by enemies of Pakistan. He said in order to have viable peace talks PTI remains convinced that there must be a structuralised approach. We are convinced that some forces are determined to sabotage the dialogue and peace process and these should be thwarted.
He said the federal government has been given a clear mandate in the APC and we demand that they should move on this. "One important step that the federal government must take is its commitment to take the drone issue to the UN Security Council without any further delay, otherwise, it will become evident that the federal government is non-serious about the national consensus reflected in the APC," he added.
He said in case both parties agreed on ceasefire then drone attacks would derail this process. "Therefore stopping drones is critical to furthering any dialogue and peace process," he added. He said that military operation is always a last option when all means are failed in this regard. "Such operations must be clearly defined in terms of scope and goals," he added. On other issues, the PTI Core Committee condemned the government's anti-people economic policies, including the unjustified price hikes, free fall of the rupee, unprecedented note printing - 800 billion in under 3 months.
It said the poor people of Pakistan are being made to pay the price for the elite's tax evasion and corruption. The Core Committee criticised the government and opposition for not taking the PTI into confidence in the process of appointing Chairman National Accountability Bureau (NAB)