Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday called al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden, who was killed in a US Navy SEAL raid in 2011, a 'martyr' (Shaheed) by the country's opposition parties. This statement came in the day after The US congressional mandate for 2019 came in the country's reports on terrorism accusing Pakistan of harboring terrorists.
Speaking in the Pakistani parliament, Khan said: 'The Americans came to Abbottabad in Pakistan and martyred Osama bin Laden. What happened after that? The whole world cursed us and Insulted us'
Khan, who was talking about Pakistan's relations with the United States, also said that after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, despite his country's support for America's war on terror his country had suffered a great deal of humiliation. Nearly 3,000 people were killed. Bin Laden had masterminded the attacks.
The Prime Minister of Pakistan said that after this humiliation, Pakistan was also blamed for the US failures in Afghanistan.
But Khan's portrayal of bin Laden as a martyr with opposition parties. Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) leader Khawaja Asif said bin Laden was a terrorist. 'Imran Khan called Osama bin Laden a witness,' he said during a session of the National Assembly. "Bin Laden brought terrorism to our land he was a terrorist though and though.
Senator Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar, a spokesman for Pakistan People's Party chief Bilawal Bhutto, claimed that Khan was now a 'threat to national security'. 'If he (bin Laden) is a martyr, then what is the status of civilians and members of our armed forces who have accepted martyrdom in al-Qaeda attacks?' Khokhar asked.
Khokhar also alleged that Khan had now proved himself a "Taliban Khan". Khan, who has defended bin Laden in the past, has long been criticized by opponents for his sympathy for the militants, which made him a "Taliban Khan" monitor. Khokhar alleged on Thursday that "meetings between the two had made clear the nexus between Imran Khan and the Taliban."
Pakistan Peoples Party Senator Sherry Rehman said that Pakistan was still facing terrorist attacks due to bin Laden's actions. 'Is it because of them that the country is in such a state and you are presenting it as a hero on the assembly floor?' He tweeted. 'Remember that Osama bin Laden can be the hero of the prime minister but not of the nation. He was and will remain the culprit of the state and the people.'
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