Monday, July 09, 2007

Pakistan Siege Cleric Agrees To "Last-Ditch" Talks

Abdul Rashid Ghazi has agreed to hold talks after the President [President General Pervez Musharraf] announced the former PM would broker them... Officials say a Pakistani cleric under siege in a mosque in the capital, Islamabad, has agreed to hold talks with seven top religious leaders, overseen by a former prime minister. Abdul Rashid Ghazi made the concession after President Pervez Musharraf authorised Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, who served as prime minister for three months in 2004, to broker the "last-ditch" negotiations to end the week-long stand-off...
Read the rest at the echoroukonline.com website
File photo by the PresidentOfPakistan.Gov website

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