Senator Waqar Mehdi said that terrorists could not be good in any form, because a terrorist is a terrorist. According to him, the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) named Khan a member of its negotiating team for peace talks with the government in 2014.
Zardari in an interview with German broadcaster DW Urdu said that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government had asked the Taliban to facilitate reconciliation with the TTP and had plans to resettle the militants in Pakistan.
Pakistan Human Rights Minister Riaz Hussain Pirzada on Sunday countered PTI leader Shireen Mazari's claim that ex-army chief retired Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa wanted to "resettle" the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) members in the country, saying ex-army generals were in favour of bringing TTP
"The policemen should stay away from our war with the slave army, otherwise the attacks on the safe havens of the top police officers will continue," TTP said in an English-language statement.
Without naming the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), he said that security forces were fighting against the terrorists last night as they were brought back and rehabilitated nearly a year ago.
Karachi Police Office (KPO) -- a centrally located building on the city's main artery -- came under a terrorist attack on Friday by the banned outfit Teheek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
"Amid Pakistan's economic crisis and the Taliban's rule in Afghanistan, the Pakistani Taliban have re-emerged as an increasingly potent threat," warned the report, released in Washington on Tuesday by the US Institute of Peace (USIP).
An IFFRAS report claimed that during the last three months, the TTP and its members have carried out 160 attacks that have claimed hundreds of lives and also exposed the flaw and vulnerability of the country's defense to counter-terrorism.
Pakistan Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah on Sunday said that the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has been granted permission to arrest former finance minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Shaukat Tarin, ARY News reported.
Since his ouster from power in a parliamentary vote of no-confidence last April, Khan has had a public falling out with the military, despite previously enjoying a close relationship with the country's most powerful institution.
According to POREG, the problem is the powers that matter in Pakistan have made terrorism a time bomb, initially appeasing the notorious terrorist elements, in the name of preserving Islam and afterwards unleashing a reign of counter-attacks against them.