{"id":45501,"date":"2013-12-13T11:17:57","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T09:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=45501"},"modified":"2013-12-13T11:17:57","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T09:17:57","slug":"if-talks-with-taliban-fail-pakistan-to-look-into-other-options-45501","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/if-talks-with-taliban-fail-pakistan-to-look-into-other-options-45501\/","title":{"rendered":"If talks with Taliban fail, Pakistan to look into other options"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_45502\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45502\" style=\"width: 421px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-45502 \" alt=\"Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain. File Pic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Pakistan-President-Nationalturk-13.jpg\" width=\"421\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Pakistan-President-Nationalturk-13.jpg 468w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Pakistan-President-Nationalturk-13-280x168.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 421px) 100vw, 421px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45502\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain. File Pic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain has warned that government will look into other options if talks with terrorist group Pakistan Taliban fail.<\/h1>\n<p>Islamabad, Dec 13\/Nationalturk &#8211; Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain has warned that if talks with terrorist group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) fail then country\u2019s government will look into other options.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Only if talks fail with TTP, then the government will look into other options&#8221;, Pakistan\u2019 television channel Geo News quoted country\u2019s president Mamnoon Hussain as saying.<\/p>\n<p>He said the civilian government led by PM Nawaz Sharif wants to resolve issues with Taliban militants through dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>Sharif met President Mamnoon Hussain at presidential house yesterday and discussed overall situation in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The two are reported to have discussed in detail the present security and political situation in the country. They also discussed modalities for starting dialogue with TTP.<\/p>\n<h2>Many political, religious groups oppose talks with TTP<\/h2>\n<p>Many political and religious groups in Pakistan have been opposing talks with TTP but PM Nawaz Sharif\u2019s party, opposition leader Imran Khan\u2019s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and religious groups like Jamaat-e-Islami have been supporting dialogue with the dreaded terrorist group TTP.<\/p>\n<p>TTP\u2019s leadership has rejected dialogue offer from Pakistan after its former chief Hakeemullah Mehsud was killed in US drone attack in country\u2019s tribal agency of North Wazirstan on November 1 this year.<\/p>\n<p>In a related development, Pakistan\u2019s newly appointed army chief General Raheel Sharif called on PM Nawaz sharif at PM House today.<\/p>\n<p>The two discussed matters of national security and military functioning.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said Nawaz brief General Raheel about government\u2019s desire to have talks with TTP.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Asia News \/ NationalTurk Pakistan News<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain has warned that government will look into other options if talks with terrorist group Pakistan Taliban fail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,1,118,85,101,14],"tags":[62350,40441,48202,51791,56141,44685,42269,62348,636,57920,31422,51301,62349,256,43131,60517,42251,14293],"class_list":["post-45501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-media-news","category-politics","category-world","tag-general-raheel-sharif","tag-hakeemullah-mehsud","tag-imran-khan","tag-jamaat-e-islami","tag-mamnoon-hussain","tag-nawaz-sharif","tag-north-wazirstan","tag-other-options","tag-pakistan","tag-pakistan-pm","tag-pakistan-president","tag-pakistan-tehreek-e-insaf","tag-pakistans-army-chief","tag-taliban","tag-tehreek-e-taliban-pakistan","tag-terrorist-group","tag-ttp","tag-us-drone-attack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}