This is apropos 'Taliban leader's treatment: ANP seeks action against Imran' carried by Business Recorder on Saturday. According to it, Awami National Party (ANP) has demanded that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan should be tried in a military court for allegedly giving medical treatment to a Taliban leader at Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital (SKMC) in Lahore.
This interesting demand came through a statement issued by central secretary-information of the party Senator Zahid Khan who expressed concern over the statement given by PTI chief in which he had admitted that an Afghan Taliban leader was treated in SKMC in Lahore.
The ANP leader has however lost sight of the fact thhat treatment of an Afghan Taliban leader at Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital is no real 'disclosure' because it has come from no one else but Imran himself. Secondly, Afghan Taliban are not Pakistani Taliban, which requires the ANP leader to draw a clear distinction between the two different outfits. Afghan Taliban's struggle, however violent, is characterised by a measure of legitimacy. Insofar as Pakistani Taliban are concerned, they have been killing fellow Pakistanis and causing damage to the state structure of the country.