"Tribal council OK's insurgent talks
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistani and Afghan leaders agreed yesterday to make contact with insurgent groups, including the Taliban, in a bid to end bloodshed and violence in their troubled border regions.
Expect a U.S. missile attack soon.
Leaders from the neighboring states reached the decision here at the end of a two-day Pak-Afghan jirgagai, or mini-tribal council.
"We agreed that contacts should be established with the opposition in both countries, joint contacts through the mini-tribal council," said Abdullah Abdullah, the leader of the Afghan delegation and the former Afghan foreign minister.
When asked to clarify whether the opposition included the Taliban and other militant groups, Owais Ghani, the leader of the Pakistani delegation and governor of the troubled North-West Frontier Province, said, "Yes, it includes all those who are involved in this conflict situation."
"We will sit, we will talk to them, they will listen to us, and we will come to some sort of solution. Without dialogue we cannot have any sort of conclusion," Ghani said.
That is ALWAYS PREFERABLE to KILLING!
Both governments have wrestled in recent months with the question of how to confront a vigorous insurgency. The essential question is whether to fight the insurgents, talk with them, or try to do both at once. The United States, too, has recently indicated a greater willingness to allow talks."
Then what was all the MASS-MURDER and TORTURE for?
Also see: Truce Talks With Taliban Underway in Saudi Arabia
Update:
Anybody hear a HAARP?
Timing is AWFULLY ODD, isn't it?
KARACHI - At least 80 people were killed when a powerful earthquake struck southwest Pakistan today, bringing down hundreds of mud-walled houses. The toll was expected to rise, a district official said.
The US Geological Survey said a 6.4 magnitude quake hit 40 miles northeast of the city of Quetta before dawn.
"I'm telling you that 80 people are dead in this area where I am standing right now," Sohail-ur-Rehman, a top district administration official in Baluchistan province told Dawn Television by telephone from Wam district. Asked whether he expected the toll to rise, he said: "Much higher." --more--"
It has: Hundreds feared dead after Pakistan earthquake
