Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan said on Thursday that federal and provincial authorities would know by the end of November whether the push for peace talks with Tehreek-e-Talban Pakistan will be successful or not.
“By the middle or end of November we will know if this isn’t going to work,” he told the Guardian newspaper in an interview. “It could be just a complete deadlock, a collapse, with [the Taliban] insisting on demands that we cannot meet. I reckon you will know in two months.” Imran said if it became clear it was not going to work then he would reluctantly go along with an operation in North Waziristan.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 4th, 2013.
