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Sat, 05/21/2011 - 14:45
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Pakistani People Plan to Stage Sit-ins to Stop NATO Convoys
TEHRAN (FNA)- Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Party Imran Khan announced on Saturday that the Pakistani people will hold sit-ins in different parts of the country to protest at the NATO and US drone attacks on the Pakistani citizens and to disrupt passage of NATO convoys through their country.
"The Pakistani people will hold sit-ins to protest at the US drone attacks and will block movement of the NATO convoys," Imran Khan told FNA.
"We will hold the sit-ins at any cost to prevent the passage of the convoys which carry NATO consignments through Pakistan's soil," he added.
He further pointed to the Pakistani people's sit-in held today to protest at the US drone attacks, and underscored that such protests indicate that the people are not in favor of the US meddling in their country's affairs at all.
Earlier, a senior Pakistani politician announced that Islamabad will lodge a complaint with the international bodies against the United States' drone attacks on its citizens.
"The issue of the US drone attacks will be raised at human rights organizations and other relevant (international) bodies," member of Pakistan's National Assembly Ahsan Iqbal told FNA in April.
"Pakistan will take legal action against the US over the issue," added Iqbal, who also spoke for the Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML-N).
Also in April, Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Chief Lieutenant General Ahmad Shuja Pasha called for an end to Washington's air raids on Pakistan as well as an end to the US espionage operations in the country, asking Washington to pull its spies out of Pakistan.
The issue was raised by Shuja Pasha in a meeting with Leon Panetta, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
Political observers say that if the US ignores Islamabad's abovementioned demands, the Pakistani Army and the ISI's possible reaction will likely include an end to Islamabad's cooperation with the US.
US drone attacks have escalated in Northwest Pakistan since President Barack Obama took office. More than 100 raids were reported in the area last year.
The drone attacks arouse deep and broad anger within the Pakistani population against both the US and the Pakistani government.
Many Pakistani politicians and former officials have blasted the Islamabad government for its weak stances against the US and its drone attacks on innocent Pakistani people.
"The Pakistani people will hold sit-ins to protest at the US drone attacks and will block movement of the NATO convoys," Imran Khan told FNA.
"We will hold the sit-ins at any cost to prevent the passage of the convoys which carry NATO consignments through Pakistan's soil," he added.
He further pointed to the Pakistani people's sit-in held today to protest at the US drone attacks, and underscored that such protests indicate that the people are not in favor of the US meddling in their country's affairs at all.
Earlier, a senior Pakistani politician announced that Islamabad will lodge a complaint with the international bodies against the United States' drone attacks on its citizens.
"The issue of the US drone attacks will be raised at human rights organizations and other relevant (international) bodies," member of Pakistan's National Assembly Ahsan Iqbal told FNA in April.
"Pakistan will take legal action against the US over the issue," added Iqbal, who also spoke for the Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML-N).
Also in April, Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Chief Lieutenant General Ahmad Shuja Pasha called for an end to Washington's air raids on Pakistan as well as an end to the US espionage operations in the country, asking Washington to pull its spies out of Pakistan.
The issue was raised by Shuja Pasha in a meeting with Leon Panetta, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
Political observers say that if the US ignores Islamabad's abovementioned demands, the Pakistani Army and the ISI's possible reaction will likely include an end to Islamabad's cooperation with the US.
US drone attacks have escalated in Northwest Pakistan since President Barack Obama took office. More than 100 raids were reported in the area last year.
The drone attacks arouse deep and broad anger within the Pakistani population against both the US and the Pakistani government.
Many Pakistani politicians and former officials have blasted the Islamabad government for its weak stances against the US and its drone attacks on innocent Pakistani people.
