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Imran threatens to obstruct NATO supplies
LAHORE: Cricketer-turned-politician and chief of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Imran Khan led a large anti-US rally in this eastern city, Lahore today to protest the release of CIA contractor Raymond Davis, who was arrested after he shot and killed two Pakistani men.
The protestors marched from Ichhra area to the spot in Mozang where Davis gunned down the two men.
This was the first time that Khan's party organized such a large rally in Lahore attended by hundreds of people.
Unlike previous anti-US rallies and demonstrations organised by hard-line religious parties and radical groups like the Jamaat-e-Islami and the Jamaat-ud-Dawah, the protest by Khan’s party was a moderate affair, with songs and music playing a key role.
Khan described the protest as a "freedom rally" and said the time had come to liberate Pakistan from the "slavery of the US".
He warned the government that if it did not immediately stop US drone attacks, his party would organise a three-day sit-in on the road used to transport supplies to NATO forces in Afghanistan.
He claimed 32,000 Pakistanis had been killed in drone attacks so far.
Khan said it was regrettable that the government freed Davis by "forcing" the families of his two victims to accept ‘blood money’ under Islamic laws.
"It was a fixed match. The blood of Pakistanis is being sold," he said
Courtesy www.geo.tv