US-Taliban talks must be linked with FATF case withdrawal: Malik.

ISLAMABAD -- Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Interior and PPP senior leader Senator A Rehman Malik has advised the government to link Pakistan's support in the US: Taliban peace dialogue with withdrawal of Financial Action Task Force (FATF) case by the United States of America.

In a statement, he said that Pakistan had been playing key role in US: Taliban talks selflessly and still America was pursuing its complaint against Pakistan with Financial Action Task Force (FATF) creating lot of implications for it.

Pakistan being victim of war of terror must make its support conditional and request US to withdraw its complaint, said Rehman Malik. He said that US should show courtesy to Pakistan as its action was highly discriminatory.

Senator A Rehman Malik said that Pakistan had been suffering from day one after committing the blunder of plunging into the Afghan-USSR war to support the US and after 9/11, once again it opted to be part of US-motivated war on terror.

He added that historically speaking, Pakistan had suffered heavily both in terms of...

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