Pak hardline party declares Hakeemullah Mehsud 'martyr'

Jamaat-e-Islami, Kyber Pakhtunkhwa, has reportedly declared the Pak Taliban Chief Hakeemullah Mehsud and his associates, who were recently killed in the drone strike, as martyrs.

The organization has demanded of the federal government to end its strategic alliance with America.

Kyber Panktunkhwa chief Mohammad Ibrahim said that those killed in the recent drone strike are martyrs as they were eliminated when they were in the process of dialogue for permanent peace in Pakistan, Dawn reports.

Ibrahim further said that the US is following its own agenda without paying heed to the national interests of Pakistan and the drone strike to sabotage the dialogue between the government and Taliban is an eye opener for the so-called patriots.

He further said that as a coalition partner in the KP government his party would support whatever steps the government would take to restrict drone strikes in future.

The report added Ibrahim saying that the JI had no vendetta with any western country and wanted relations with them on the basis of equality and mutual respect.