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Friday, November 22, 2013
Imran announces plan to block NATO supply ‘forever’Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan Thursday strongly condemned the US drone attack in Hangu and said his party would stage a huge protest demonstration in Peshawar on Saturday (tomorrow) to block NATO supplies forever. Imran urged Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to take a firm stand against US Predator attacks, saying the time to play on “both sides of the wicket is over”. Speaking at a press conference, he said that after the Hangu attack the US can undertake such attacks in any part of the country, including the federal capital, due to the “cowardice of the Pakistani government”. “All these attacks are happening because the government has no guts to tell the US that it must stop this madness…you never know after Hangu the next target could be a seminary in Islamabad’s posh E7 sector,” he cautioned. About his party’s scheduled plan to block NATO supply route on November 23, the PTI chief said that a huge protest demonstration would be staged in Peshawar on Saturday. He appealed to the nation to participate in the protest if they want to get rid of US hegemony. Imran said that drone attacks are war crimes and the Peshawar High Court has already given its verdict in this regard. He vowed to block NATO supplies on official level, saying that Thursday’s drone attack was carried out in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, therefore the provincial government has the right to halt these supplies officially. The PTI chairman also expressed concern that lives of people are at risk as the US has now expanded its missile attacks to the settled areas. “Nawaz Sharif has not bothered to condemn Thursday’s US drone attack in the country’s settled area (Hangu), which shows that he has no interest in issues confronting Pakistan (and) his only priority is his foreign trips,” Imran regretted.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk