After China, Iran Also Admonishes Pakistan About Terrorism
By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Dec 20th, 2008 • Category: Politics • 4 CommentsSomething very very incompetent is going on the foreign front of Pakistan. Pakistan is fast becoming pariah and there is no sense of urgency in the leadership which is busy in bringing in Darbari governance in the country. India is fast weaving the net around the Pakistan and yet the rulers are unaware and oblivious of the threat.
Without giving any proofs for the involvement of Pakistani government and any elements from Pakistan, India managed to convince the members of security council to slap ban on the three charity outfits of Pakistan which were working in the Kashmir region and besides of that it succeeded in portraying a bad and scary image of Pakistan as an epicenter of terrorism and a persistent threat for the world. Diplomatic and foreign policy failure of Pakistan is clearly evident in this whole episode.
Now Iran’s deputy foreign minister Mohammad Mehdi Akhondzadeh is in New Delhi and “urging” Pakistan to “Do More” in the war against terror. “Our Pakistani friends, they should also take the lessons and they should also deal with the terrorists in a very strong manner,” Mohammad Mehdi Akhondzadeh told reporters in New Delhi.
Iran is our friend, but before falling pray to the Indian propaganda it must remember that it was the same India who supported US when US declared Iran a country a part of axis of evil. One hopes that Iranian government would come up with some sort of explanation in this regard.
But, whether that happens or not, we must have to set our own house in order. We need to fire all the foreign officials and lobbysits in UN, US and at other niche places and employ a team of people who are passionate, rigorous, aggressive, professional, visionary and loyal to their job and who eat, sleep, walk and live through doing their job properly. Otherwise, the whole world will turn against us for nothing, as it turned against Iraq upon the issue of weapons of mass destruction, where there was nothing in there, but as Iraq failed to convince the world about it and remained oblivious and belligerent, it has paid the price and still paying.
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Sharif slams flip-flopping Zardari, says Kasab from Pak
Islamabad: Challenging President Asif Ali Zardari’s assertion that there was no proof that the arrested Mumbai attacker hailed from Pakistan’s Punjab province, former premier Nawaz Sharif has said that the suspect’s village was cordoned off and his parents were not allowed to meet anyone.
“I have checked myself. His (Ajmal Amir Iman alias Ajmal Kasab) house and village has been cordoned off by the security agencies. His parents are not allowed to meet anybody. I don’t undertand why it has been done,” Shraif, who hails from Punjab, said in an interview to ‘Geo News’ channel.
“The people and media should be allowed to meet Iman’s parents so that the truth could come out in the open,” he said, adding that “We need some kind of introspection.”
Zardari, who earlier acknowledged that the perpetrators of the Mumbai carnage could be ‘non-state’ actors from Pakistan, has now said there is still no “real evidence” that the terrorists who attacked Mumbai came from Pakistan.
“Have you seen any evidence to that effect. I have definitely not seen any real evidence to that effect,” Zardari told BBC in an interview earlier this week.
Pakistani security agencies and local officials in Faridkot have launched a cover-up since India made it public that Kasab belonged to the village in Punjab province and his father acknowledged to a Pakistani newspaper that the gunman captured in India was his son.
Sharif also slammed President Zardari’s rule, saying the functioning of the current Pakistan People’s Party-led Government is making Pakistan look like a “failed state”. Pakistan presents the picture of a failed and ungovernable state due to the absence of the government’s writ and the country urgently needs a new roadmap to pull it out of the problems it is currently facing, he said.
Kasab has told Indian investigators that he belongs to Faridkot village of Okara district in Pakistan’s Punjab province and that he was trained by the Lashker-e-Taiba to carry out the attacks. Iman’s father Amir Kasab too had admitted that the gunman in pictures beamed by the world media is his son.
Sharif said if Iman was not involved in the Mumbai attacks, why was Faridkot village being cordoned off by security agencies and the media prevented from going there.
If Iman was “involved in any way, despite that his parents should be allowed to speak out and say the boy has been (away from home) for three or four months or one or two years and we are also very worried about him”, Sharif said.
He also asked why people and journalists were being barred from meeting Iman’s parents and other residents of Faridkot.
Pakistani security agencies and local officials in Faridkot have launched an apparent cover-up operation since Indian investigators revealed he belonged to the village.
Iman’s parents have reportedly been shifted from the village and local officials have claimed no youth named Ajmal Kasab had lived in Faridkot.
[...] Pakistanis belonging to the land, admonished as the epicenter of global terrorism, not just by India or USA but even by its friendly allies like Iran or [...]
[...] Pakistanis belonging to the land, admonished as the epicenter of global terrorism, not just by India or USA but even by its friendly allies like Iran or [...]