Sharif feels talks with Taliban difficult after church attack

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has hinted that it is difficult to go ahead with the all parties conference-endorsed plan for talks with Talibanfollowing the deadly attack on a Peshawar church that killed at least 81 people, media reports said on Monday. ‘Such incidents do not augur well for negotiations,’ he told reporters in London on his way to New York, where he is scheduled to attend the 68th session of the UN General Assembly. 

‘Unfortunately, because of this, the government is unable to move forward on what it had envisaged, on what it had wished for,’ The Express Tribune quoted him as saying. At the same time, he instructed the authorities concerned to devise a new security plan for the worship places of the country’s religious minorities.