ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday morning, chaired a meeting with the four-member-committee formed to facilitate talks with Taliban militants, during which he gave the members guidelines for holding the talks, DawnNews reported.
The first meeting of the committee discussed in detail the framework and strategy of the talks.
The meeting also touched upon the topics of the committee's mandate and rules of negotiations with militants, which would be discussed in details in the next meeting.
However, the Prime Minister issued guidelines to the committee and explained its jurisdiction.
The committee members would now decide the leading rules of engagement among themselves.
Premier Sharif had only one precondition for talks, which he had explained in the National Assembly on Wednesday that there should be no terrorist attacks during talks.
The same day Prime MInister Nawaz Sharif, after informing the National Assembly of the govt's decision to pursue talks with Taliban militants, had announced the constitution of a four-member team to hold talks with the militants.
The committee comprised of his Advisor on National Affairs Irfan Siddique, veteran journalist Rahimullah Yusufzai, former ambassador and expert on Afghanistan affairs Rustam Shah Mohmand and former ISI official Major (Retd) Amir Shah and would be assisted by Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan.