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FORMER cricket superstar Imran Khan yesterday gave his support to two terror suspects accused of encouraging guerrilla warfare in Pakistan.
Giving evidence at a London terror trial, the sportsman-turned-politician said had he been in the same position as the two men in the dock he would have been prepared to take up arms.
He told the court he would have been willing to use violence against the Pakistan government if he had been from the country’s poorest province of Baluchistan, where he said the army had killed and kidnapped citizens, made 75,000 homeless, rigged elections and controlled the courts.
Imran, chairman of the Movement For Justice political party in Pakistan, was giving evidence during the trial of two Baluchi men.
The pair are accused of encouraging acts of violence against former dictator General Musharraf’s government from their London base.
Imran said the military leader had abused his power, collected “bounty” from America for handing over terror suspects and had rejected a political solution to unrest in Baluchistan because “a military man only understands military means”.
Henry Blaxland QC, representing Hyrbyair Marri, one of the defendants, asked Imran: “Given your own knowledge of the situation in Baluchistan, you have gone on record to say that if you were a Baluchi you may have resorted to picking up a gun to defend yourself, is that right?”
Imran said: “To defend the rights of my people... I think if I had no access to getting into parliament because most of the elections are heavily rigged there.”
He added: “If I had no way of expressing my grievances or this injustice where... most of my people are below the poverty line, how else would I express myself?”
Imran, speaking via video link from Islamabad, said that when the Baluchi people protested, Musharraf sent in the army.
“Hundreds disappeared, there was extra judicial killing. It was treated more like a colony rather than a part of Pakistan,” Imran added.
Marri, 40, of Ealing, and Faiz Baluch, 27, of Wembley deny assisting terrorism and inciting murder abroad. The trial continues.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/79107/I-d-do-the-same-as-terror-suspects-says-Imran-Khan
BLA killed many innocent children, women, and men and here Imran Khan is defending these terrorists. Before I thought Imran Khan was a more patriotic Pakistani than Altaf Hussein, but now I think Altaf Hussein is a thousand times more patriotic Pakistani than the traitor Imran Khan.
Another article of Imran Khan supporting BLA:
The former Pakistani cricket captain Imran Khan has told a court he supported the right for people to take up arms against their government if there was no longer any other democratic alternative for them to pursue.
Mr Khan, now a politician, made the remarks at the trial at Woolwich Crown Court of Faiz Baluch and Hyrbair Marri, who deny inciting terrorist murder in Pakistan. Mr Baluch, 27, from Wembley, north London, and Mr Marri, 40, from Ealing, west London, are accused of gathering information for the Baluchistan Liberation Army, a proscribed group in the UK, and of inciting murder via websites they ran.
Human rights groups have accused the Pakistani military of human rights violations in Baluchistan, a western province of Pakistan.
Asked by Mr Baluch's defence counsel, Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, whether the people of Baluchistan had "other avenues" besides military to "assert the will of the people", Mr Khan replied: "Absolutely not. In Baluchistan there was military action going on, [so] there was no way of redressing the people's grievances."
The trial continues.
Imran defends terror suspects - Home News, UK - The Independent
Giving evidence at a London terror trial, the sportsman-turned-politician said had he been in the same position as the two men in the dock he would have been prepared to take up arms.
He told the court he would have been willing to use violence against the Pakistan government if he had been from the country’s poorest province of Baluchistan, where he said the army had killed and kidnapped citizens, made 75,000 homeless, rigged elections and controlled the courts.
Imran, chairman of the Movement For Justice political party in Pakistan, was giving evidence during the trial of two Baluchi men.
The pair are accused of encouraging acts of violence against former dictator General Musharraf’s government from their London base.
Imran said the military leader had abused his power, collected “bounty” from America for handing over terror suspects and had rejected a political solution to unrest in Baluchistan because “a military man only understands military means”.
Henry Blaxland QC, representing Hyrbyair Marri, one of the defendants, asked Imran: “Given your own knowledge of the situation in Baluchistan, you have gone on record to say that if you were a Baluchi you may have resorted to picking up a gun to defend yourself, is that right?”
Imran said: “To defend the rights of my people... I think if I had no access to getting into parliament because most of the elections are heavily rigged there.”
He added: “If I had no way of expressing my grievances or this injustice where... most of my people are below the poverty line, how else would I express myself?”
Imran, speaking via video link from Islamabad, said that when the Baluchi people protested, Musharraf sent in the army.
“Hundreds disappeared, there was extra judicial killing. It was treated more like a colony rather than a part of Pakistan,” Imran added.
Marri, 40, of Ealing, and Faiz Baluch, 27, of Wembley deny assisting terrorism and inciting murder abroad. The trial continues.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/79107/I-d-do-the-same-as-terror-suspects-says-Imran-Khan
BLA killed many innocent children, women, and men and here Imran Khan is defending these terrorists. Before I thought Imran Khan was a more patriotic Pakistani than Altaf Hussein, but now I think Altaf Hussein is a thousand times more patriotic Pakistani than the traitor Imran Khan.
Another article of Imran Khan supporting BLA:
The former Pakistani cricket captain Imran Khan has told a court he supported the right for people to take up arms against their government if there was no longer any other democratic alternative for them to pursue.
Mr Khan, now a politician, made the remarks at the trial at Woolwich Crown Court of Faiz Baluch and Hyrbair Marri, who deny inciting terrorist murder in Pakistan. Mr Baluch, 27, from Wembley, north London, and Mr Marri, 40, from Ealing, west London, are accused of gathering information for the Baluchistan Liberation Army, a proscribed group in the UK, and of inciting murder via websites they ran.
Human rights groups have accused the Pakistani military of human rights violations in Baluchistan, a western province of Pakistan.
Asked by Mr Baluch's defence counsel, Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, whether the people of Baluchistan had "other avenues" besides military to "assert the will of the people", Mr Khan replied: "Absolutely not. In Baluchistan there was military action going on, [so] there was no way of redressing the people's grievances."
The trial continues.
Imran defends terror suspects - Home News, UK - The Independent
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,, The Naxalites and Maoists are the same. Previously they were known as Naxals, now they changed the name to Maoism. Their main objective is not separatisms from India, their objective is to bring a socialist revolution in India, just like they have dont in Nepal.They are not seeking separate territory from India. Next thing Tamil separatism does not exist in India, it exists in Sri Lanka..
... All the Kashmiri terrorist groups like LeT or the JeM, operate from Pakistan, and nearly all the separate leaders have had militant backgrounds. 
