The Pakistan Government is virtually shelving, for now, its plan to revive peace talks effort with the Taliban, the National Assembly has heard.
Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said that no dialogue could make headway until the United States stopped drone strikes at suspected militant hideouts in the tribal belt.
According to Dawn News, Khan repeated his argument that the dialogue process initiated by the government had been 'sabotaged' after Taliban chief Hakeemullah Mehsud was killed in a drone strike.
Although he assured the house that "we have to pick up the pieces" in the face of what he called "broken paths", he spoke of no remedy for drone attacks, the report added.
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