Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf

Monday, 9 May 2011

Nato forces’ stay unjustified after Osama: Imran

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”.

Sukkur: PTI-Press Releases 6 May 2011

Tuesday, 3 May 2011

Sukkur: Regional Times

US should leave Pakistan, Afghanistan: Imran

PTI chief says 34,000 Pakistanis killed in ‘irrelevant’ war.

SUKKUR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan has said that the US should pull out its forces from Afghanistan and Pakistan as they have achieved their target of capturing or killing Osama bin Laden. After Bin Laden’s death, he added, America’s mission in the region is finished.

Khan observed this while addressing a press conference in Sukkur on Tuesday. He said that Pakistan has lost 34,000 of its citizens in this irrelevant war, while according to the government, the country has incurred a loss of Rs68 billion.
Commenting on Bin Laden’s death, Khan said that he had no idea how it was done. “Even our president wasn’t aware of the incident, and was informed about it by the US president,” Khan said.
Elaborating on the post-Bin Laden situation, he said that the Americans will think that Pakistani agencies were sheltering him, and they might pressure Pakistan to start an army operation in North Waziristan. He claimed that the government has lost credibility in the world community and that Pakistanis are not trusted abroad.