In order to condemn the US drone strikes and launch vociferous protest against the killing of innocent tribesmen, a British filmmaker and campaigner Carol Grayson will participate the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) peace march to South Waziristan Agency.
The march has already created a stir with the Pakistani Taliban having threatened to kill Khan – and then withdrawing the threat.
Grayson, who has campaigned to expose the infected blood scandal of the 1970-80s and has also helped to make a film about a notorious incident in Iraq in which a US Army helicopter killed eight men, including two Reuters journalists, in 2007, told the Drone Wars UK website that she refuses to support “the US and British state-sanctioned terror of targeted killing by drone, being used in the so-called ‘war on terror’ which frequently annihilates civilians in the Tribal Areas of Pakistan”.
She said she had been invited to join the march into one of the most dangerous areas in Pakistan by Imran Khan: “I will be joining a peace march to Waziristan with international media, human rights activists and anti-war protesters in solidarity with drone victims. I plan to publicly disassociate, ditch and disown any connection to those drones manufactured as remote control killing machines operated out of airbases in the US and soon the UK.”
She said that she did not think the march was a gimmick and revealed that Imran Khan had met with tribal leaders this week who are supportive of the march. An anti-drone protest will take place in Bradford, Yorkshire – in advance of the Wazirstan march on 14th September.
The PTI chairman Imran Khan announced on Tuesday that he would lead a ‘peace march’ from Islamabad to South Waziristan on Oct 6 to express solidarity with the people of the tribal area and to protest against US drone attacks.
Mr Khan said the march would reach South Waziristan on Oct 7 after an overnight stay in Dera Ismail Khan.
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Whenever we don’t wake we will funished lile this by the hands of america.
It is a good step taken to show solidarity.
it is a great risk. khan must show solidarity with drone victims but should know the threat. Taliban have different groups which are not at good terms with each other.
they are least pushed about solidarity or killing of innocent. they may strike, if it happens, khan will be blamed for all fuss crated. Better to reconsider march destination.
g8
hero of pakisatan n no 1 can do this kind of work…i m pml supporter but i m appreciated of this work for humanity……
we are proud of imran khan
What a person this man is. Never in pakistans political history after quaid e azam someone has been so honest, so transparent and so bold in his stance. If Almighty Allah is with him , this man is destined to lead pakistan to glories which it deserves and which it could not achieve after demise of great Jinnah.
This man is something. Hats off to him and to those people of pakistan who are supporting him
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