March will expose US terrorism: PTI

PTI chief says tribal people, militants and the army have no problem with his party’s march.

PESHAWAR:

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) provincial leadership, flanked by victims of drone attacks, said that the aim of ‘Peace March’ was to expose US terrorism to the international community — vowing that they will hold the march with or without the permission of the political administration of South Waziristan.

“Instead of creating hurdles for the peace activists participating in the march, the government should have facilitated PTI’s caravan to South Waziristan as it would be held against drone assaults which violate Pakistan’s sovereignty and international law,” party leaders told a press conference on Thursday.

A number of drone attack victims from the tribal areas, whose family members were killed and houses destroyed in the strikes, were also present during the press conference.

Noor Behram, a local journalist, displayed a missile casing fired from the US predators which, according to him, killed a local elder Gul Abar Khan when he was attending a local jirga.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 5^th, 2012.