Is Imran Khan playing with fire?

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Re: Is Imran Khan playing with fire?

@chaibiskut

It’s difficult to take a guy who says things like “there is no threat to Pakistan from extremist/Taliban ideology” seriously. Naturally no one’s going to bump him off, he knows how to appease the Astaghfirallah Brigade, just like any Pakistani politician who wants to stay alive, should. Only I suspect he actually believes the stuff he says. Such a pity PTI sounds like JI lite sometimes.

So why did the spokesman of the Pakistani taliban call Imran a “slave of the US and Europe” and remarked “We also think Imran is not our sympathiser”? … and this was just last year, right after Imran’s Lahore jalsa. They obviously heard Imran condemning terrorism countless times.

From what I understand, Imran is on about the Pakistani citizens of the tribal areas that started to support the taliban ideology when they came under attack from the army and, being a warrior/armed tribe, started to retaliate.

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Baki Allah knows best. If wanting to negotiate with the militants is his worst crime, I say he’s still a saint compared to our current “leaders” and compared to the likes of chachi Clinton.