Islamabad - The Pakistan Government has disbanded a panel of parliamentarians formed last year to initiate peace talks with home-grown Taliban, diminishing prospects of institutionalised dialogue with militants.
National Assembly Speaker Dr Fehmida Mirza constituted a parliamentary committee last October after Pakistan's top political and military leadership decided to hold negotiations with militant groups at an all-party security conference.
The move was so hyped that some government leaders called it a paradigm shift in the country's military-dominated security policy after seven years of anti-terrorism campaign in the tribal badlands, reports The Express Tribune.
Pakistani leaders borrowed the idea of parliamentary oversight of dialogue with the militants from the model of High Peace Council formed in 2010 by President Hamid Karzai to spearhead peace process with the Taliban.
The formation of the parliamentary panel appeared to be mere formality as the 12-member committee has not been able to hold a single meeting so far, leaving it to the military authorities to deal with Taliban, the paper said.
The government did not even bother a ceremonial move to choose a new chairperson after its former head, Raja Pervez Ashraf was elected as the prime minister, the paper added.
Officials at the secretariat of the Speaker National Assembly said the committee has not been able to do anything so far except for holding a couple of meetings that too for the election of the chairperson.
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