Khan believes the US is responsible for the rise of the Pakistani Taliban, allies of the Afghan Taliban.
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Since 2004, the US government has attacked thousands of targets in tribal areas along the Afghan border in Northwest Pakistan. It used unmanned aerial vehicles operated by the US Air Force under the operational control of the CIA’s Special Activities Division. Attacks increased substantially under Bush’s successor, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Barack Obama.
A non-violent campaign in Pakistan against drone strikes by the Tehreek-e-Insaf party, led by Imran Khan, involved blocking the route to pressure Washington to stop targeting armed groups in the region bordering Afghanistan. NATO supply containers to and from Afghanistan via Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were stopped at border points until US drone attacks stop and a formal apology was later given to the government for the killings in Pakistan. It ended in 2014.
Imran Khan attacks those countrymen who support NATO’s war on the Taliban:
*“They have absolutely no idea. They sit in the drawing room…
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Well, the US backed the Taliban when they were fighting Russia, so the guy is right. And he’s right about the drone strikes too. And he was a very impressive cricketer! I’d probably vote for him.
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