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| Police ring Imran Khan's cancer hospital |
| 2007-11-09 |
| LAHORE: Pakistani police Friday sealed off a cancer hospital set up by Imran Khan as they sought to track him down, after he has escaped arrest under the state of emergency. A police official was quoted as saying that police had cordoned off the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital in Lahore "to search for Imran Khan." "We are still looking for him because we have orders to detain him" under public order legislation, police official Mohammad Omar said. Khan's house was also cordoned off. Khan said in a statement from hiding that he was in contact with other opposition leaders and "we will soon launch a mass movement against Musharraf." He demanded the reinstatement of independent-minded chief justice Iftikhar Muhammed Chaudhry, who was sacked by Musharraf immediately after the state of emergency was imposed. "We will continue our struggle," Khan said while talking to Geo television later. "We are also preparing our strategy to launch a civil disobedience movement against him. We will not let him (Musharraf) sit in peace." He called for the reinstatement of all other judges who have been detained and spoke of setting up a legal support fund to help them. Staff at Geo News office said police later came to the channel's Islamabad bureau to inquire about the interview. "They came and said they were looking for Imran Khan but then they left without searching the office," reporter Mohammad Tahir said. |
| Posted by:john frum |
| #4 Someone has to say it: Khaaaaaaan! |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2007-11-09 20:42 |
| #3 'moose, are you thinking of Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistan's "father of the bomb" ? Imram Khan is no friend of the US, but his background was as a cricket player before he became a politician. |
| Posted by: lotp 2007-11-09 19:03 |
| #2 I just had the idea for a great black op. If we could send in a team to kidnap A.Q. Khan, and make it look like he had been taken by Islamists, it would solve a lot of problems. First of all, he would have to do a Jimmy Hoffa, never be seen again. This would be our payoff for his proliferating nuclear weapons. It would also serve as warning to other ambitious scientists who would want to do the same. Second, by implying that he was taken either by al-Qaeda or Iran, would allow us to justify actions that me might want to take against them. Third, because he is a Pakistani national hero, it would piss off the average Pakistani on the street at al-Qaeda, Islamists in general, and Iran in particular. In other words, a win-win. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-11-09 18:10 |
| #1 They'd better ring the entire nation. Pakistan is a cancer on this earth. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-11-09 17:36 |