Re: Peace overture: PTI caravan for Waziristan
You mean that Ik was just threatening him .
You are right .
Ik can not file a defamation case against anyone .
Legal resons
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pehlay doosray jiyalon se check kar liya karayn bolnay se pahlay:
Re: Peace overture: PTI caravan for Waziristan
Imran Khan and Codepink blocked from tribal area - The Washington Post
By Richard Leiby, Published: October 8The Washington Post
TANK, Pakistan — The military on Sunday blocked Pakistan’s most vocal antiwar politician from leading thousands of his supporters into the nation’s insurgency-racked tribal region to call for a halt to U.S. drone strikes and promote peace with the Taliban.
Imran Khan, the cricket star turned politician who has earned broad appeal with his populist message, brought a 500-vehicle convoy to within 15 miles of the border of South Waziristan. But he was turned back after the army’s Frontier Corps said it could not ensure security for the several thousand rally-goers.
The military’s reasoning, Khan later told his supporters, was that the convoy had arrived too late in the afternoon to risk allowing people to gather after sunset. But all along it was doubtful that the army, which keeps a tight grip on domestic affairs, would allow Khan to enter the tribal region with a bevy of American antiwar activists from Washington-based Codepink.
**It was remarkable that Khan, a candidate for prime minister, even got past Tank, the last major town before the border of South Waziristan. Since 2009, when the army launched major operations against the Pakistani Taliban and other factions, access to the semiautonomous tribal areas has been strictly controlled by the military.
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Khan had wanted to stage his “peace march” in Kotkai](http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/pakistani-politician-plans-drone-protest-in-off-limits-tribal-area/2012/10/04/d186a4d4-0e55-11e2-ba6c-07bd866eb71a_story.html), the home town of Hakimullah Mehsud, head of the Pakistani Taliban. His party estimated that as many as 100,000 would attend, but perhaps a tenth of that number arrived for the procession, forming traffic backups for miles.
Although most drone strikes now occur in North Waziristan, South Waziristan is where, in 2004, missiles from the remote-controlled aircraft hit their first target, militant leader Nek Mohammad Wazir.
The day turned out to be a disappointment for Codepink, which, like Khan, says the CIA’s eight-year drone campaign has caused considerable civilian casualties and spurred tribesmen to take up arms with the insurgents, who are battling to impose Islamic law, or sharia, on Pakistan. U.S. officials say the vast majority of those killed in drone attacks have been militants.
The 32 Americans had traveled for 13 hours Saturday from the capital, Islamabad, to reach the impoverished region about 290 miles to the west, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. They rode in two white vans festooned with grisly posters of children whose families said they had been killed by drone-fired missiles.
Codepink is perhaps best known for its noisy disruptions of congressional hearings and puckish street theatrics in Washington. But the group’s members also are active in campaigns against Israeli policy in the West Bank, and they staged protests in Iraq before the U.S.-led invasion.
It counts as members former military officers and war veterans, some of whom traveled to Pakistan.
The majority-female delegation — in their early 20s to late 70s — traveled with no security guards despite announced militant threats against them and Khan, head of the Pakistan Justice Movement political party. They fell in line behind Khan’s procession as legions joyously waved party flags atop trucks.
**By late Saturday, when the Codepink delegates finally reached a large farm belonging to a regional party official, they were mobbed by an admiring Pakistani media and given a hero’s welcome by hundreds of the candidate’s fans.
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Anti-American sentiment runs extremely high in Pakistan, but the delegation focused on a simple message: “We are against drones” was emblazed in Urdu in green fluorescent script, outlined with glitter, on the oversize white bibs they wore.
“You hit people with these drones and you create instant enemies,” said JoAnne Lingle, a silver-haired Mennonite from Indianapolis. “It’s supposed to be increasing our national security and it’s doing the opposite.”
Her church raised money to send her to Pakistan. She persuaded the pastor to let her bring in a replica drone: “He gave a wonderful sermon on why we needed to do this as Christians,” she said.
On Sunday morning, the civilian administration in Tank granted Khan permission to transit through the town, removing steel containers that had blocked the road. But access to the tribal region remained doubtful — so much so that the Codepink delegation decided to avoid the traffic and head back toward the capital.
“We’re disappointed . . .but we certainly feel it was successful for us in reaching the Pakistani people with our message of peace,” said Medea Benjamin, a Codepink co-founder.
**Had Khan entered South Waziristan, his visit would have been the first since the mid-1970s by a mainstream political leader. Then-Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, founder of the ruling Pakistan People’s Party, visited to pledge that he would bring electricity and phone service to the tribal areas. Services improved, but Islamabad has generally neglected the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, where poverty and illiteracy are rampant.
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Khan told Sunday’s rally that he wants to establish a relationship of “love, respect and more political freedom” for tribal people, promising economic development and jobs.
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They spoke with Imran Khan on CNN
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This was all preplanned drama .Our establishment often do it . We see these dramas whole the life .
This drama and Kiani’s visit to Russia .They received the result .
Hillary ‘waives’ conditions for aid
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PTI to hold anti-drone rally outside UN headquarters******
Days after leading a peace march to the gateway of drone-afflicted South Waziristan, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman plans to hold a protest rally right at the doorstep of the United Nations' headquarters in New York.
Speaking with Talat Hussain on Express News show “Live with Talat” on Tuesday evening, the PTI chairman said that “We are starting an international petition which says drones are inhuman and violate human rights. We will go to New York and have a ‘tsunami’ outside the UN. We will have American Pakistanis and US peace activists protesting drones and hand over the petition to the UN saying UN laws are being violated,” Khan said of his immediate plans to tackle drones.
“We will also try to get Angelina Jolie there too,” he said, before adding that his party, the PTI has also taken a legal recourse against drones by filing a suit with NGO Reprieveat.
Responding to another question, Khan said that the only way to bring peace to the troubled badlands of Pakistan was to visibly pull out of America’s war, call for an end to drone strikes and entrust the armed tribals to police their own areas.
"Shooting down drones attacking Pakistani areas would be an option of last resort," he added.
It's a very good idea. The PTI should continue to highlight the issue with full force. A rally at the heart of New York would highlight the issue like never before.
Re: Peace overture: PTI caravan for Waziristan
Ask Taliban Khan to stop kidding the nation .
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Ask Taliban Khan to stop kidding the nation .
For over 30 years, your and others' manzoor-e-nazar so called leaders from PPP, PMLN, PMLQ have been kidding the nation and constantly looting them, ripping them off from their wealth and consturcting their own evident empires (surray palace, estates in Raiwind, plazas) and nation is so stupid that it will be again ready to vote the moron corrupt leaders. But the one whose record speaks for itself, who has no charge of corruption, and who has given Pakistan so much that these nutheads could not even think of in 30 years is kidding the nation.
Who are we kidding? If we think he is kidding the nation, then, we are only slave of our own biases.
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And Imran enjoyed full facilities , plots , money , working relationship from all of them since Zia Times . More dirty than them if they are bad .
Re: Peace overture: PTI caravan for Waziristan
And Imran enjoyed full facilities , plots , money , working relationship from all of them since Zia Times . More dirty than them if they are bad .
blah blah blah
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Ask Taliban Khan to stop kidding the nation .
when PPP stops screwing the nation IK will stop kidding the nation :p
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The day jiyalas will start putting the country before the party, they will start seeing the truth. Till then…
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Care to explain, what does it mean?
Re: Peace overture: PTI caravan for Waziristan
Care to explain, what does it mean?
Ya Rab na wo samjhey heiN na samjheiN ge meri baat
dey aur dil unko jo na dey mujh ko zubaaN aur :)
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** PTI to hold anti-drone rally outside UN headquarters******
Days after leading a peace march to the gateway of drone-afflicted South Waziristan, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman plans to hold a protest rally right at the doorstep of the United Nations' headquarters in New York.
Speaking with Talat Hussain on Express News show “Live with Talat” on Tuesday evening, the PTI chairman said that “We are starting an international petition which says drones are inhuman and violate human rights. We will go to New York and have a ‘tsunami’ outside the UN. We will have American Pakistanis and US peace activists protesting drones and hand over the petition to the UN saying UN laws are being violated,” Khan said of his immediate plans to tackle drones.
“We will also try to get Angelina Jolie there too,” he said, before adding that his party, the PTI has also taken a legal recourse against drones by filing a suit with NGO Reprieveat.
Responding to another question, Khan said that the only way to bring peace to the troubled badlands of Pakistan was to visibly pull out of America’s war, call for an end to drone strikes and entrust the armed tribals to police their own areas.
"Shooting down drones attacking Pakistani areas would be an option of last resort," he added.
It's a very good idea. The PTI should continue to highlight the issue with full force. A rally at the heart of New York would highlight the issue like never before.
this is the way to go... i support this.
though nobody responded to my post, but finaly sanity is coming back... we need similar anti-dron rally in front of Parliament and GHQ
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Now our army is going to attack Waziristan after US Drones.
Ask Taliban Khan to come out against them .
Re: Peace overture: PTI caravan for Waziristan
Now our army is going to attack Waziristan after US Drones. Ask Taliban Khan to come out against them .
To pehle wahan konsa bara aman hai
Re: Peace overture: PTI caravan for Waziristan
Now our army is going to attack Waziristan after US Drones. Ask Taliban Khan to come out against them .
Why don't YOU elaborate what should be done? What is PPP's stance on drones and TTP? Please don't quote Rahman Malik, I am looking for a response with some sense in it.
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PPP is fighting with the dirty killers . Drone issue is complicated due to agreements of Imran's boss Mush's agreements with US .
Pakistan is facing all due to establishment and its puppets .
Re: Peace overture: PTI caravan for Waziristan
Have you seen any lair bigger than Imran
He is saying that there were “Lakhon Aadmi”
Not more than a thousand in the march with only almost 500 workers .
You can check it with the reporters accompanying march ,
Now read it .
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