Zardari looking to hold peace talks with Pakistani taliban

Because the previous peace deals with the taliban worked out so well...AKI

Karachi, 20 Jan. (AKI) - By Syed Saleem Shahzad - Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari met a key leader of one of the country's most powerful religious parties on Tuesday in what sources say is a bid to seek reconciliation with militants in the tribal areas. Maulana Fazlur Rahman, who heads his own faction of the Jamiat-i-Ulema-i-Islam party, met Zardari as militants released a video CD featuring messages from teenage suicide bombers before their attacks.

Sources said that Zardari was looking for Maulana Fazlur Rahman to repeat what he did successfully in 2005 - action he took that resulted in peace agreements between the Pakistani Taliban and the government a year later.