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No educated Muslim can support Taliban: Imran
No educated Muslim can possibly support the Taliban or their narrow interpretation of Islam, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan told Pakistani journalists at a news conference on Saturday.Imran, who is visiting to raise funds for his charitable causes, said in 1,400 years of Islamic history, no Islamic state had been run on the basis of theocracy. He denied that there was any reactionary movement in Pakistan as represented by the Taliban and called the recent reports of Peshawar under threat of being taken over by religious radical groups as absurd. He said what was called radicalisation was actually political extremism, adding that the more the Tribal Areas were bombed, the larger the number of those fighting back became. Imran said the answer lay in dialogue and not in "blind bombing" of mostly civilian populations living in the area. Smokescreen: The PTI chairman termed the impeachment move against President Pervez Musharraf as a "smokescreen" and said that Asif Zardari was hand in glove with Musharraf. The real McCoy, he stressed, was the judges' issues, which had been relegated to the backburner. If the judges dismissed by Musharraf were restored, there would be no need to impeach Musharraf, as the court, in accordance with the constitution, would adjudicate upon the illegality of his election. Posted by: Fred 2008-08-10 |
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