Pakistan People’s Party with Army on Taliban issue

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Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) General Secretary Sardar Latif Khan Khosa reiterated on Tuesday that his party stood with the army on the Taliban issue, and termed the ongoing differences between two politicians as to whether the slain Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud is a martyr or not “poisonous for democracy”. The PPP leader issued a statement, reaffirming his party’s support for the army against the Taliban and said it had rendered countless services in defending the country. Khosa appreciated the armed forces for defending solidarity of the country from the internal as well as external aggression and said, “Such poisonous views of the leaders would not weaken army’s resolve in defending the motherland.” He also lamented the controversy created by the two leaders of religious/political parties. He added that this controversy has created division among political parties and religious-political parties which was not good for democracy. The PPP leader said that the “venomous statements” of the two leaders could demoralise the army, leaving the country “defenceless” and people at the mercy of terrorists who believed in enslavement, intimidation and elimination at gunpoint. He also expressed his abhorrence over the sense of proportion of the two leaders who believed that army soldiers fighting terrorists were not martyrs and even a dog killed by American drones was “shaheed”. “No one expects such a derogatory definition of shaheed,” he observed. Khosa extended his party’s full support to the families who had become victims of terrorism and deeply hurt by the statements of two “so-called political/religious leaders”. He said that reaction of the nation over the most “irresponsible statements” of Jamat-i-Islami and JUI-F leaders was indicative of the fact that people were with the armed forces in the war against terror. He made it clear that the PPP’s political philosophy was its commitment to “undiluted democracy” and support for the army.