ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) – Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) spokesman Naeem-ul- Haque on Thursday defended his stance over the killing of Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Mansour.
Earlier, while speaking to a private news channel, he had had that the late Taliban Chief was a “martyr” killed for “fighting for his homeland by a US drone strike.
Talking to a local newspaper Naeem said, “Fighting to liberate your homeland is a just cause.”
He reiterated that he believes ‘shaheed’ (martyr) is a “political term” and even Indian Muslim soldiers killed in Kargil by Pakistani forces were called ‘shaheed’.
Earlier after Mullah Mansour was killed in a drone strike, Naeem commented in a talk show “The US drone strike in Balochistan in which Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Mansour was killed, I’d rather say was martyred,”.
https://twitter.com/NoshadAliii/status/738108701408645120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
This attracted criticism from different quarters of the public, who slammed him for his pro-militant comment while others termed it a mistake.
Furthermore, Naeem tweeted on Friday (today) that those who sacrifice their life for a just cause are shaheed (martyr).
https://twitter.com/naeemul_haque/status/738625621786402817
Earlier, the PTI chief Imran Khan had also evaded a question asked by an anchor regarding whether he considered Osama Bin Laden to be a terrorist or not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcqQch3G37g
