Islamabad: The Pakistan army has condemned a prominent Islamic political party leader who called the Pakistani Taliban leader killed by a US drone strike a martyr.
Syed Munawar Hasan, the head of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, told a Pakistani TV station earlier this month that he thought slain Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud was a martyr. He later implied that Pakistani soldiers killed while fighting Islamic militants are not martyrs because they are allied with the US.
The army condemned Hasan's comments as "irresponsible and misleading" in a statement Sunday and demanded that he apologize.
Syed Munawar Hasan, the head of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, told a Pakistani TV station earlier this month that he thought slain Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud was a martyr. He later implied that Pakistani soldiers killed while fighting Islamic militants are not martyrs because they are allied with the US.
The army condemned Hasan's comments as "irresponsible and misleading" in a statement Sunday and demanded that he apologize.
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