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Imran blames violence on PPP, MQM and ANP
[Dawn] Alleging that the PPP, the MQM and the ANP are involved in murders in Bloody Karachi, Pakistain Tehrik-i-Insaaf chairman Imran Khan... who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five... says the bloodletting can be checked only if the state stops protecting the criminals. Demanding immediate resignation of the rulers, he prescribes midterm polls as the only solution to the problems facing the country. Speaking at a presser here on Friday, he said the main reason behind the murder spree in the port city was that the government itself was protecting the criminals. This protection, he said, could be in the form of defamed NRO or patronisation of the hit mans. He claimed that criminal elements in the PPP, the MQM and the ANP, and not Taliban, were involved in the Bloody Karachi violence. The PTI chief said if the three parties wanted peace in the port city, they should shunt out these elements from their ranks and hand them over to the law-enforcement agencies instead of providing them cover. Mr Khan alleged that Interior Minister Rehman Malik Pak politician, current Interior Minister under the Gilani administration. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. He later joined the Pak Peoples Party and was chief security officer to Bhutto. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Näwaz Shärif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. visited Bloody Karachi after each incident only to strike a deal among these parties. He said as the government had failed on all fronts, it should step down to make room for midterm polls which, he said, were the only solution to the current issues. He announced that second "remove the government, save the country" public meeting would be held in Faisalabad on July 24. Responding to a query about joining the proposed grand alliance of the opposition, he said "the grand alliance is in fact a grand fraud." Explaining, he said (PML-N chief)  Nawaz Sharif... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Müslim League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... had deceived them twice and they were not ready to be hoodwinked for the third time in the name of grand alliance. The PTI chairman said those who had been enjoying power (with the support of the PPP) were now out to cheat the masses through the proposed anti-government alliance. He said the PML-N had been supporting the PPP government in the name of democracy and even today it was overlooking the injustices, including gas loadshedding being done to Punjab, only to take its turn in power. Mr Khan said Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif was keeping 20 portfolios and was not ready to tolerate honest officers like DIG Zulfiqar Cheema for they were a hurdle in rigging of by-polls. Posted by: Fred 2011-07-10 |
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