January 15, 2006	Sunday	Zilhaj 14, 1426

KARACHI, Jan 14: The Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf, Sindh chapter, has strongly condemned killing of 18 innocent villagers in a missile attack by US aircraft at residential compounds in Damadola village in Bajour Agency on Friday.

In a statement issued on Saturday, PTI Sindh president Zubair Khan described the attack as “vehement insult of humanity and severe blow to the country’s sovereignty”.

He held the rulers responsible for killing of 18 innocent people and charged that the inept rulers had mortgaged the whole country to the US imperialism in name of so-called war against terror.

Zubair Khan alleged that the rulers on one hand were harming the country’s integrity by advocating controversial projects and on the other killing the countrymen on behest of the US, which was a conspiracy to tear the country into pieces. He vowed that Tehrik-i-Insaf would never allow what he called the opportunists rulers to carry out this conspiracy and achieve their “evil designs”.

He stressed upon ruling parties’ parliamentarians to compel the rulers to halt operation in Balochistan, register strong protest against the US and its agencies, responsible for killing innocent people in Damadola and announce withdrawal from the so-called war against terror. —PPI