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AHSAN*NINTH

Baig offers to

mediate between

Govt, MQM

LAHORE: Former Pakistan army chief and Chairman Awami Qiyadat Party (AQP) Gen. (Retd) Mirza Aslam Beg has once again offered to mediate between the government and MQM to bring peace in strife-torn Karachi.

"I had offered Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto twice before this but both the times she rejected it", he added.

Addressing a well attended press conference here at his party's Punjab secretariat on Sunday, he termed the peace talks between the government and the MQM as useless because they lack sincerity of purpose on both sides to find out a permanent solution.-PPI