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2016-07-30 India-Pakistan
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Imran says allegations of support for Taliban are 'absolute nonsense'
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[DAWN] Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf
...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem , each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations....
(PTI) chairman Imran Khan
... aka Taliban Khan , who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer...
in an interview with Al Jazeera's Mehdi Hasan dismissed allegations of support for the Taliban as "absolute nonsense".
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"Yes, they are [a terrorist group]," he conceded. "Anyone who kills innocent people are terrorists," Khan said.
Khan has often been criticised for adopting a "soft stance" on myrmidons, as he has stressed for dialogue over militancy on several occasions. In one interview, he has described Taliban fighters as people oppressed by the state: "Terrorism in Pakistain is a reaction to drone strikes and military operations; suicide kabooms are a tool of the weak used to attack oppressors."
He has also rejected his opponents labelling of him as "Taliban Khan", and said, "I am often made out to be the naughty boy who supports the Taliban."
In the interview with Al Jazeera, Khan urged scrutiny of his statements over the past 10 years for condemnations of violence.
Responding to allegations that he is soft on the Taliban, differentiates between 'good' and 'bad' myrmidon groups and is 'mainstreaming extremism', Khan said, "Most people do not understand the Taliban syndrome. The Taliban syndrome has to be understood."
"There were no myrmidon Taliban in Pakistain when 9/11 took place. There were no myrmidon Taliban in Pakistain right up until 2004. The militancy started in Pakistain when the Pakistain Army went into our tribal areas, [which] are per capita the most weaponised place on earth."
Hasan also grills Khan regarding the controversial Rs300 million funding allocated for the Darul Uloom Haqqania
...an Islamic seminary located in Akora Khattak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The seminary propagates the Deobandi trend of Sunni Islam and is headed by Maulana Samiul Haq, known as the Godfather of the Taliban . It has been dubbed The University of Jihad due to the methods and content of instruction along with the future occupations of its alumni....
seminary in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
's provincial budget last month.
Both Khan and the KP cabinet have argued the funding is part of a plan to reform seminaries and bring them in line with mainstream education in the province.
The seminary is located in Nowshera district of KP and currently run by Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam
...the political wing of the Pak Taliban...
-Sami chief Maulana Samiul Haq
... the Godfather of the Taliban, leader of his own faction of the JUI. Known as Mullah Sandwich for his habit of having two young boys at a time...
. It has faced several controversies in the past as its students have been accused of involvement in the murder of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto
... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in...
. The seminary is also said to be the alma mater of many prominent Afghan Taliban leaders.
In the Al Jazeera interview, Khan says accusations by former president Asif Ali Zardari ─ who termed the move to fund Haqqania a "legitimisation of militancy and myrmidon Taliban" ─ are "like so many of the Moslem corrupt rulers, ex-rulers, trying to win Western support by saying how liberal they are and how anti-Taliban they are".
The PTI chief earlier said that the seminary had agreed to implement reforms in exchange for the funding.
The PTI's stance was that funding and support for Darul Uloom Haqqania would help seminary students assimilate into society, bring them in to the mainstream and keep them away from radicalisation. The PTI chief claimed those opposing such moves knew "little of Pak society".
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