By KUNA
Islamabad : The provincial assembly of North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan met on Friday with vows from newly-elected members to maintain law and order in the volatile region.
The session of NWFP assembly began with newly-elected 117 members taking oath and electing their speaker.
Secularist Awami National Party (ANP) had formed a government in the strategically imperative province of Pakistan after defeating pro-Musharraf Islamist Mutahida majlis-i-Amal (MMA).
After taking oath, the members passed a resolution that called for UN probe into assassination of Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister and chairperson of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).
Bashir Ahmed Baluch, leader of ANP, in his address, said peace will be restored in the volatile tribal region through Jirga negotiations.
The new government at the center and NWFP have developed a consensus that talks will be held with militants and all actors involved to resolve worsening security crisis.
The decision has been criticized by the United State with John Negroponte, currently on visit to Pakistan, saying, “I dont see how can you talk to those kind (extremist) of people.” The 37-year old Chief Minister-designate of NWFP, Amir Haider Khan Hoti, in an interview with local daily Dawn, published Friday, said in the Pukhtun society, no issue is ever resolved through the use of force and power.
Issues are always resolved through dialogue, Jirga and negotiations, he said. Even beyond Pakistan, he added, countries which have had conflicts had to eventually return to the negotiating table to resolve their problems.
In England, for instance, the British government had to negotiate with the Irish Republican Army, which it had previously dubbed as a terrorist organization, and worked out the Good Friday Agreement, said the young chief minister.