SUKKUR, May 2: Tehrik-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan has said that if Osama bin Laden has been killed by US forces, then there is no justification for the continued presence of American or Nato forces in the region.
He said that the US government had declared that they were in the region to hunt down Bin Laden and other Al Qaeda leaders. And because Bin Laden had been killed, there was no justification for the US troops to stay in the region.
Talking to reporters at the Sukkur airport on Monday, Mr Khan said that at least 34,000 Pakistanis had been killed in the war on terror and the country had suffered a $68 billion loss, according to a statement by President Asif Ali Zardari.
He said the government had brought so much notoriety to the country that Bin Laden’s killing could not defame it any more.
Answering a question about the alliance between the People’s Party and PML-Q, he said he was not surprised with the politics of common interests because “fake democracy came through fake votes and fake educational degrees and a fake NRO”.
He said that through the National Reconciliation Ordinance, loans of Rs100 billion had been waived off, which had no parallel in the history of the world.
He said that Nawaz Sharif’s statement that called for midterm elections was surprising. When we were talking about midterm elections by ending the NRO, he was calling for saving the system and democracy. And now when he has sensed that his government is in danger, he is demanding midterm elections, keeping aside the future of democracy, Mr Khan remarked.
He said that a war of vested interests was continuing in which one group was ruling while the other groups were busy in looting and plundering the wealth of the nation.
Mr Khan said that Tehrik-i-Insaf could not make alliances with corrupt elements. The party wanted to introduce a corruption-free system in the country. He said that those who were criticising him were supported by the ISI.
People were suffering due to high inflation and increase in prices of petrol and daily-use items, which had pushed them to the wall, he said. Instead of improving its performance, the government was busy in hatching conspiracies.
When Mr Khan arrived at the Sukkur airport for the first leg of a two-day visist to upper Sindh, he was welcomed by a large number of activists led by Tehreek’s local leaders Dr Rab Nawaz Kalwar and Mehfooz Akhter.
Our Shikarpur correspondent adds: Addressing a public meeting at Shahi Bagh ground, Mr Khan said the rulers had come into power with the support of the people who harboured high hopes. But they were playing politics to prolong their rule instead of resolving the people’s problems.
He said that his party wanted the Pakistan of the Quaid-i-Azam in which people could get social justice and students from poor families could get equal rights of education under a uniform education policy.
He threatened to organise a resistance movement to stop Nato supplies if the US continued to launch drone attacks.
He said that the US government had declared that they were in the region to hunt down Bin Laden and other Al Qaeda leaders. And because Bin Laden had been killed, there was no justification for the US troops to stay in the region.Talking to reporters at the Sukkur airport on Monday, Mr Khan said that at least 34,000 Pakistanis had been killed in the war on terror and the country had suffered a $68 billion loss, according to a statement by President Asif Ali Zardari.
He said the government had brought so much notoriety to the country that Bin Laden’s killing could not defame it any more.
Answering a question about the alliance between the People’s Party and PML-Q, he said he was not surprised with the politics of common interests because “fake democracy came through fake votes and fake educational degrees and a fake NRO”.
He said that through the National Reconciliation Ordinance, loans of Rs100 billion had been waived off, which had no parallel in the history of the world.
He said that Nawaz Sharif’s statement that called for midterm elections was surprising. When we were talking about midterm elections by ending the NRO, he was calling for saving the system and democracy. And now when he has sensed that his government is in danger, he is demanding midterm elections, keeping aside the future of democracy, Mr Khan remarked.
He said that a war of vested interests was continuing in which one group was ruling while the other groups were busy in looting and plundering the wealth of the nation.
Mr Khan said that Tehrik-i-Insaf could not make alliances with corrupt elements. The party wanted to introduce a corruption-free system in the country. He said that those who were criticising him were supported by the ISI.
People were suffering due to high inflation and increase in prices of petrol and daily-use items, which had pushed them to the wall, he said. Instead of improving its performance, the government was busy in hatching conspiracies.
When Mr Khan arrived at the Sukkur airport for the first leg of a two-day visist to upper Sindh, he was welcomed by a large number of activists led by Tehreek’s local leaders Dr Rab Nawaz Kalwar and Mehfooz Akhter.
Our Shikarpur correspondent adds: Addressing a public meeting at Shahi Bagh ground, Mr Khan said the rulers had come into power with the support of the people who harboured high hopes. But they were playing politics to prolong their rule instead of resolving the people’s problems.
He said that his party wanted the Pakistan of the Quaid-i-Azam in which people could get social justice and students from poor families could get equal rights of education under a uniform education policy.
He threatened to organise a resistance movement to stop Nato supplies if the US continued to launch drone attacks.
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