ISLAMABAD - Chairman Pakistan Tahreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan has demanded that the government should manage to stop the drone attacks while implementing the All Parties Conference (APC) mandate. Khan said that the PTI felt vindicated again with the publication of the Amnesty International Report on drones, titled: Will I be Next: US Drone Strikes in Pakistan”. The report pointed out that the USA must be held accountable for drone killings in Pakistan, and as Khan pointed out, it also suggests that these unlawful killings could amount to war crimes. Khan reminded that PTI has consistently held that drones were a violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty and was a violation of international law including Human Rights laws. Khan demanded the judgement of the Peshawar High Court on drones earlier this year, should also be implemented immediately. “The government has been mandated by all the political parties to stop drones over FATA and the PML-N itself had committed to do the same if elected to power. Now the time has come to implement the APC mandate and its own electoral commitment to the people of Pakistan”, Khan said while reacting to the AI report here on Tuesday. Khan also pointed out that last week the BBC had referred to a UN investigation which had found that US drone strikes had killed at least 400 civilians in Pakistan, far more than the US has ever acknowledged. Khan condemned the conspiracy of deliberate confusion and duplicity on drone attacks against Pakistan’s FATA region which was now being exposed internationally. “It is sad to learn of our own leaders and other elements being part of this conspiracy - a point that is highlighted in the Amnesty International Report as well, and a point which the PTI had been raising since drone attacks began,” said the PTI chief. There must be zero tolerance for such actions against Pakistan and its people, Khan asserted saying these attacks fuel militancy and aggravate the problem of terrorism, especially in the frontline province of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa
Posted on: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 12:11:31 +0000
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