Do you trust the Pakistani military regime to bring about a transparent jirga?
The lack of transparency will show itself immediately, so there is only one way and that is transparency. It is like bringing a professor of some subject to a classroom and he will show immediately if he can teach the subject or not. You cannot fake a jirga, it has to be true. You can rig an election, you can undermine and intimidate people, but you cannot rig a jirga. Would you ask for any international monitoring for this jirga? It has become an international question as well. The bombings around the world and Afghanistan and Pakistan as well and the loss of life, show that terrorism is caused by what was going on in this region and the free hand given to extremist elements. If we don’t end it, the crisis will continue and Pakistan and Afghanistan will be the negative focus of the rest of the world, so it is in the interest of the international community to participate with us. But mostly it is for us to decide with wisdom so this proposal will be taken well. What is happening in [th
