Lahore attack will weaken Pak economy further: Imran
Updated On: 06 March, 2009 03:24 PM IST | PTI
Noting that the recent attack on Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore cast an adverse impact on Pakistan, cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan has said the attackers aimed at damaging the country's economy.
Noting that the recent attack on Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore cast an adverse impact on Pakistan, cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan has said the attackers aimed at damaging the country's economy.
"It has already had an impact on our stock exchange. Now people will be scared to come to Pakistan. This was clearly the aim at damaging the country's economy," the founder of Tehreek-e-Insaf party has said.
Imran was of the view that more than cricket it was the economy which would be hit badly as investors would be scared to come to Pakistan due to the deteriorating security situation. Khan also questioned the Pakistan government's saying that some headway into the attack has been reached.
"I do not think they have discovered anything new. There is an anger in Pakistan that the information intelligence agencies had given stating there could be a possible attack on the Sri Lankan team," Imran said.
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"It was a neglect on part of the Punjab government which completely failed to protect the cricketers," he told the private Sri Lankan channel 'Shakthi TV'. Pakistan cannot handle the situation as long as it is fighting George Bush's war on terror, Khan added.
"We are fighting someone else's war. There was no suicide attack within Pakistan before 2004. We had over 100 suicide attacks last year.
Because this attack has nothing to do either with extremists or it has nothing to do with the war on terror in the frontier and the tribal areas," Imran said.
However, he added: "But it has everything to do wi
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