Imran Khan: Cut ties with the US

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Pakistan needs to move away from US: Imran Khan

Press Trust of India

London: Calling President Asif Ali Zardari an "impotent puppet", cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has said that Islamabad needs to move away from the US as Pakistan was using its own army to kill citizens with American money.
He said the war on terror was 'unwinnable' and that the American aid to Islamabad was destroying Pakistan.
"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," Khan told 'The Guardian' daily.

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Arguing that the war on terror was unwinnable, Khan said: "The Soviets killed more than a million people in Afghanistan. They were fighting more at the end than the beginning.So clearly a population of 15 million could take a million dead and still keep fighting."
"They (the Americans) are going to have to kill a lot of people to make any impact and they also have in Zardari an impotent puppet as Pakistani president who has not delivered anything to the Americans".
He added: "The Americans also don't realise that this whole Arab spring was against puppets or dictators. People want democracy. So this whole idea of planting your own man there, a dictator neocolonialism is what it's called is not going to work any more".
Khan bristled with anger on the charge that Pakistan was allegedly complicit in harbouring Osama bin Laden.

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"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,

"The Soviets killed more than a million people in Afghanistan. They were fighting more at the end than the beginning.So clearly a population of 15 million could take a million dead and still keep fighting."
"The Americans also don't realise that this whole Arab spring was against puppets or dictators. People want democracy. So this whole idea of planting your own man there, a dictator neocolonialism is what it's called is not going to work any more".

[Random visitor]

Imran Khan makes a good point.

However, I believe that he was a much better cricket player than politician.

Khan bristled with anger on the charge that Pakistan was allegedly complicit in harbouring Osama bin Laden.

Pakistan was not aware that bin Laden was there?

Like many Australians, I would like to see our troops come home. The war in Afghanistan has turned into another un-winnable war like Vietnam, we should have pulled out many years ago. We probably should not have been involved in the war at all.

Having said this, I do admit that I am pro-American and I rather live in a world with the US as a super-power, than a world with a different balance of power.

[afghan]

another clown. he speaks the things which already been spoken and brought parties to power, including PPP, jamateislamiand many other religious parties. all these parties speak against the US but in reality they pray towards USA, why does not imran khan speak against the UK. basically there is no diffirence in the policies of the US and UK. i guess he wants direct funds from the US for himself.