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Waziristan pact to remain intact

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Khursheed Kasuri said on Tuesday that the government would not withdraw from the North Waziristan peace agreement but would consider amending it if there were any shortcomings in it. Kasuri told reporters here that Pakistani military forces had not withdrawn from the area after the agreement, but only pulled back from certain check posts. “Their visibility is reduced but they are very much present in the area,” he said. “No force can fight with its own people for ever. There has to be a political settlement. Through the agreement we have involved the local people and the clerics,” he said. irfan ghauri

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