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Not only is he a liar, he is not "moderate" in the least. Please read on.
Tough guy 'Taliban Khan' | Columnists | Opinion | Toronto Sun
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Suits us fine actually - such buffoons should come to power and dash the aspirations of Pakistani youth more and more.
Tough guy 'Taliban Khan' | Columnists | Opinion | Toronto Sun
What a piece of scum. Liar. Bringing up "drone attacks" to make himself sound heroic in front of his Paki audience.An official who observed the interrogation process told me Khan sat timidly with his head lowered and hands clasped while he received a "dressing down" about potentially violating the limitations of his visitor's visa to the U.S.
He said there was no talk about Khan's opposition to U.S. attack drones, as the politician later claimed after the fact.
My source, tells me the real concern was that Khan had told passport control he was coming to the U.S. to visit family and friends, without specifying his planned fundraising and political activities.
(Deputy U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, Richard Hoagland, later tweeted about the incident, as cited by Pakistan's International News , saying Khan's detention had: "Nothing to do with drones — he brought it up.")
Stuck in detention, Khan requested help from the Pakistani government to intervene and calls were made to the U.S. State Department.
Khan was then asked to give assurances that he would not use his visa for political purposes, to which he promptly agreed and was allowed to go on his way.
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And come gullible Pakis talk about this idiot as if he will be a great saviour of the country.The question was simple: If Imran Khan was elected as the country's prime minister, what would be the fate of religious minorities in Pakistan, such as Hindus and Ahmadis?
Twenty-seven-year old journalism student Kazim Rizvi and his camera-carrying colleague had managed to conduct a coveted interview (after waiting 18 hours) with Khan as his car drove to the airport, where the Pakistani politician was to board a flight to the U.S.
Rizvi says Khan got visibly irritated at his question.
"He tried giving a half-sentence platitude to equality, but I persisted and popped a question no Pakistani reporter dares ask: 'What about gays'?"
This infuriated Khan, Rizvi said.
"Ok now, end of the interview, finish, I don't want to talk to you," he is heard on the tape telling the two students.
Rizvi says after the camera was turned off, he got a tongue-lashing and Khan's handlers aggressively threw the camera at his colleague.
He added: "Khan was furious"¦ he told me to scrap this 'stupid interview' "¦ these are western issues,' what have they got to do with Pakistan?"
At the airport, Khan's handlers asked the students to "hand over the tape," Rizvi said, but the two were able to get lost in the crowd of a last-minute photo op with Khan.
Suits us fine actually - such buffoons should come to power and dash the aspirations of Pakistani youth more and more.