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PTI not for 20/20 matches in politics, says Imran Khan
* PTI chief says military action to help spark a wave of extremism
By Irfan Ali
KARACHI: PTI Chairman Imran Khan has asked the government to form a team of neutral experts to propose Afghanistans exit strategy to the United States.
A fact-finding mission, comprising of all political parties, should be constituted to ascertain who violated the Swat accord first, he proposed while speaking at a Meet the Press programme held at the Karachi Press Club on Monday. Khan urged the government to propose an exit strategy to the Obama administration through a team of experts, instead of following US dictation. Elaborating about his partys agenda, he said that the Pakistan government should break off its alliance with the US in the war on terror. People are under an impression that the Pakistan Army is fighting a US war and is killing people for US dollars, just the way Iraqis and Afghans consider their security forces, he said. Khan said that a military action on the dictation of do more was an oft-tried and a failed strategy.
Action: He said that around 1.5 million internally displaced people are there and a military action would help spark a wave of extremism. The US army would have fought this war at $12 billion per month but Pakistan has been paid not more than $12 billion since it joined the war on terror. Moreover, Pakistan has suffered to the tune of $50 billion, Khan said as he compared the cost and repercussions of the war on terror, adding that the Pak army was fighting this war at the cheapest cost.
He recalled that the US had violated the sovereignty of the Pakistani Parliament by drone attacks on the day when the Parliament unanimously adopted a resolution against such attacks. About his proposal on the fact-finding mission of the political parties, he further said that the mission should ascertain who was being killed in Malakand Division.
Rejecting the impression that the Taliban will capture any part of Pakistan, he said, Pakistan has a 700,000-strong army and do you think it possible that 5,000 Taliban can defeat them? To a question, he said, Taliban could create anarchy but they cannot disintegrate Pakistan, adding that economic injustice and the class-war poses more serious threats than the Taliban.
* PTI chief says military action to help spark a wave of extremism
By Irfan Ali
KARACHI: PTI Chairman Imran Khan has asked the government to form a team of neutral experts to propose Afghanistans exit strategy to the United States.
A fact-finding mission, comprising of all political parties, should be constituted to ascertain who violated the Swat accord first, he proposed while speaking at a Meet the Press programme held at the Karachi Press Club on Monday. Khan urged the government to propose an exit strategy to the Obama administration through a team of experts, instead of following US dictation. Elaborating about his partys agenda, he said that the Pakistan government should break off its alliance with the US in the war on terror. People are under an impression that the Pakistan Army is fighting a US war and is killing people for US dollars, just the way Iraqis and Afghans consider their security forces, he said. Khan said that a military action on the dictation of do more was an oft-tried and a failed strategy.
Action: He said that around 1.5 million internally displaced people are there and a military action would help spark a wave of extremism. The US army would have fought this war at $12 billion per month but Pakistan has been paid not more than $12 billion since it joined the war on terror. Moreover, Pakistan has suffered to the tune of $50 billion, Khan said as he compared the cost and repercussions of the war on terror, adding that the Pak army was fighting this war at the cheapest cost.
He recalled that the US had violated the sovereignty of the Pakistani Parliament by drone attacks on the day when the Parliament unanimously adopted a resolution against such attacks. About his proposal on the fact-finding mission of the political parties, he further said that the mission should ascertain who was being killed in Malakand Division.
Rejecting the impression that the Taliban will capture any part of Pakistan, he said, Pakistan has a 700,000-strong army and do you think it possible that 5,000 Taliban can defeat them? To a question, he said, Taliban could create anarchy but they cannot disintegrate Pakistan, adding that economic injustice and the class-war poses more serious threats than the Taliban.
