Pacquiao To Negotiate With The Bandits?

MANILA - Sen. Aquilino Pimentel Jr. on Weekday urged the Philippine governance to tap Philippine envelopment competitor Manny Pacquiao as a accord communicator in the fire of the past infract in Basilan.

Pimentel said Filipino Islamic Achievement Beguiler rebels seem up to Pacquiao and would focus to his suggestions to modify pact to Island. Malacañang fresh decreed the Filipino enclosing icon as presidential envoy for heartsease and savvy

"He is the exclusive one who can do this with direct appearance, quick modify," he told ABS-CBN Program. He said the boxing hero would not be in any danger.

Sen. Francis Escudero, meantime, said he sees cipher unethical with the offer especially if it helps the quietness transform. He more that it is relieve up to Pacquiao if he module consent the render.

Sen. Rodolfo Biazon, notwithstanding, said he doubts that Pacquiao could eliminate a monumental fighting in the talks. "What does Manny Pacquiao hit that can shell the efforts of the regime?" he told reporters.

He said he will also line a finding "to extract the judgement of the Senate that there staleness be supporting of commencement of serenity talks until there's a re-examination of policy by the polity."

Biazon questioned the governance's insurance of coordinating with the MILF everytime it has a personnel action in Mindanao. He said the very substance was utilised by several MILF rebels to trail downed and scrap authorities troops in MILF-controlled areas.

He said he also conventional reports from soldiers who complained of not feat intel finances, air operation, armour and gun during the push against the Abu Sayyaf in Basilan inalterable Honorable 12.

Escudero, meantime, urged the MILF leading to turn against rogue elements of the aggroup in Basilan.

Twenty-three soldiers and 20 Abu Sayyaf fighters were killed when the warriorlike overran an Abu Sayyaf breeding domicile in Ungkaya Pukan municipality in Basilan lastly Weekday.

Structure Escritoire Dr. Teodoro said the soldierly suffered distressful casualties after MILF fighters from a nearby municipality ambushed a gather of soldiers who were retrieving their wounded.

"Even if they play themselves MILF, they hump dissimilar chiefs, varied groups...What the MILF should do is hold that they possess no contain over these groups because it fitting destroys their sanction. [These fighters] are MILF for toilet but Abu Sayyaf in concealment," he said.

Pres. Arroyo has sequent the perfect annihilation of the Abu Sayyaf after the killings of 23 soldiers in Basilan. "The war against threat moldiness be pursued. The destruction of the Abu Sayyaf staleness be finished," Teodoro quoted Arroyo as locution.

Mrs. Arroyo warned that MILF fighers who married in the massacre of the soldiers would be hunted set despite a ceasefire with the rebellious unit.

Teodoro warned that the authorities also knew which MILF groups had aided the Abu Sayyaf in the warring and warned that the authorities would go after them.

"There are cases we possess already filed against them and we love filed protests" with the outside group monitoring the governance's ceasefire with the MILF, Teodoro told reporters.