Bhutto’s son calls for Pakistan military action on Taliban!

The son of the assassinated former prime minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, has called on the country’s authorities to take military action against militant groups.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said politicians must “wake up” to the threat posed by armed groups such as the Taliban. His comments in a BBC interview come as the government holds urgent talks over how to tackle growing violence.

Mr Bhutto, 25, said he was considering standing in elections due in 2018.

Speaking exclusively to the BBC, he said Pakistan had exhausted the option of talks with militants and that military action was now needed. Pakistan’s National Assembly is meeting to discuss the country’s response to a series of recent militant attacks, including an attack on an army convoy earlier this month.
The assembly’s session on Monday ended without decision amid differences over whether or not to talk to the Taliban, which the government is in favour of.
Mr Bhutto told the BBC he thought the assassination of his mother in 2007 would “wake the country up” – but that politicians had wasted the consensus built up by his family, partly by believing that the United States should fight the Taliban for them.