PM Imran Khan In Hot Waters For Calling Osama Bin Laden 'Shaheed'

Pakistan Muslim League - N (PML-N) senior leader Khawaja Asif criticised Prime Minister Imran Khan over his speech in the National Assembly in which the PM termed Osama Bin Laden a 'martyr'. Asif said that Bin Laden was responsible for terrorism on Pakistan soil. "He was a terrorist and he [PM] refers to him as a shaheed?", Khwaja Asif said while addressing the National Assembly session.
Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leader Senator Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar also commented on Imran Khan's statement and went on to call the PM a 'national security threat'.

"By calling Osama bin Laden a martyr, Imran Khan has become a national security threat. If he is a martyr, then what is the status of those civilians and members of our armed forces who embraced martyrdom in the attacks by Al Qaeda?"

In a statement released following the PM's National Assembly speech, Mustafa Nawaz said that thousands of civilians and youth were martyred in attacks by Al Qaeda. "What lesson is the PM trying to teach the younger generation", he asked, adding that Imran Khan had also in the past called for opening of Taliban's offices in Pakistan.