KARACHI: This is with reference to Kamran Shafi’s article “Of silly statements, questionnaires, and our helplessness” (October 5). The writer states: “I don’t suppose Imran Khan and the TTP think that lopping off Pakistani soldiers’ heads and displaying them in videos and photographs with an executioner carrying an axe in the background is a violation of our sovereignty?”
I want to thank Mr Shafi for highlighting this. I do not understand how the very killers of our armed forces — leave alone thousands of innocent men, women and children — can find a supporter in the form of Imran Khan and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). The very people who have admitted on record to killing our soldiers, blowing off our planes and killing ex-generals are there to provide security to Imran Khan and his peace caravan. But then again, this is a nation of hypocrites; those who form the PTI are no different, either.
Haris Chaudhry
Published in The Express Tribune, October 6th, 2012.