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208167
Mon, 09/19/2011 - 22:16
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United States money is destroying Pakistan: Imran Khan
London, September 19, 2011 (PPI): Insisting that Pakistan should move away from the United States in the war on terror, Pakistan Tehrik Insaf PTI Chairman Imran Khan believes that aid from the US was allegedly destroying his country.
“The aid to our puppet government from the US is destroying our country. We're basically using our army to kill our own people with American money. We have to separate from the US,” Imran Khan told The Guardian newspaper in an interview in London.
Speaking on several issues, he said Pakistan had two main problems: corruption and tax evasion. “We have the lowest tax-GDP ratio in the world: 9 per cent. If we get it to 18 per cent, which is India, we're solvent,” he said.
Imran Khan bristled with anger on the charge that Pakistan was allegedly complicit in harbouring Osama bin Laden. The whole of Pakistan, according to him, was “furious” when US President Barack Obama announced in May that bin Laden had been killed.
“The whole of Pakistan felt this way. Wherever I went, I felt this humiliation and anger in people. It was humiliating because an American president announces it, not our president. And because it was the American military, not our military, which this country has given great sacrifices to nurture, that killed him.”
He added: “Most humiliating of all was that CIA chief Panetta says Pakistan government was either incompetent or complicit... They're talking about a country in which 35,000 people have died during a war that had nothing to do with us. Ours is perhaps the only country in history that keeps getting bombed, through drone attacks, by our ally.”
“The aid to our puppet government from the US is destroying our country. We're basically using our army to kill our own people with American money. We have to separate from the US,” Imran Khan told The Guardian newspaper in an interview in London.
Speaking on several issues, he said Pakistan had two main problems: corruption and tax evasion. “We have the lowest tax-GDP ratio in the world: 9 per cent. If we get it to 18 per cent, which is India, we're solvent,” he said.
Imran Khan bristled with anger on the charge that Pakistan was allegedly complicit in harbouring Osama bin Laden. The whole of Pakistan, according to him, was “furious” when US President Barack Obama announced in May that bin Laden had been killed.
“The whole of Pakistan felt this way. Wherever I went, I felt this humiliation and anger in people. It was humiliating because an American president announces it, not our president. And because it was the American military, not our military, which this country has given great sacrifices to nurture, that killed him.”
He added: “Most humiliating of all was that CIA chief Panetta says Pakistan government was either incompetent or complicit... They're talking about a country in which 35,000 people have died during a war that had nothing to do with us. Ours is perhaps the only country in history that keeps getting bombed, through drone attacks, by our ally.”
