By IANS,
Islamabad : Pakistan will put in place an immigration system along its border with Afghanistan to check illegal cross-border movement, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said Wednesday.
The system would start work in November in Chaman, the border city in Balochistan and Torkham in northwest Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa, Xinhua quoted Malik as saying during a press conference in Quetta.
On negotiations with Taliban, Malik said the government has received some messages from Pakistani Taliban for peace talks, however, no such dialogue would be initiated until extremist elements laid down their weapons.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani last month said the government will hold talks with the Taliban to end violence in the country, which has claimed lives of nearly 35,000 people including 5,000 security personnel over the past 10 years.
The dialogue offer was made days after a government-called conference of about 60 political and religious leaders suggested to the government to hold talks with the armed group.
The deputy chief of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Maulvi Faqir had welcomed the dialogue offer and said Taliban would hold direct talks with the government. Another TTP core leader Qari Wali-ur-Rahman sought mediation by Saudi Arabia as a guarantor in case of a peace deal.
Prime Minister Gilani said the security forces would launch military operation in North Waziristan tribal region if the proposed talks with Taliban failed. Enditem