'Pakistan both fireman and arsonist
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NEW DELHI: Articles published in reputed international newsmagazines have lambastedPakistan for its acts of commission and omission in the Osama bin Laden episode and suggested that its government could have been playing a double game.
In the article, They Got Him, The Economist says that it is difficult to believe that Pakistan's "blundering spies" had no idea of the whereabouts of the al-Qaida boss.
"It (the Pakistan government) prefers to plead incompetence, since admitting to the alternative is far more painful: that the Inter-Services Intelligence directorate (ISI), or rogue elements in it, had long harboured Mr bin Laden and that Pakistan's leaders acquiesced in his killing, if at all, only moments before it was done. That seems, to many, the likelier explanation," the article said.
" U s u a l ly smooth-talking ISI men have been giving garbled accounts of what they and their government were up to... More telling is the gobsmacked silence of General Ashfaq Kayani, the powerful army chief, who had long denied that Mr bin Laden was hidden in Pakistan. Only on April 23rd he had brushed away American grumbles that too little was being done to fight terrorists, saying blithely that they would soon be beaten. All the more galling for him, he spoke at Abbottabad's military academy, within waving distance of the most wanted terrorist in the world," the newsmagazine said. Time magazine is equally scathing. An article headlined, "How can we trust them," says that it beggars belief that no knew who was living in that sprawling Abbotabad compound .
The article quotes Christine Fair, an expert at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Languages saying, "Pakistan can be described as both the fireman and the arsonist. It constantly finds ways of renewing its strategic relevance."
The Newsweek has published renowned author Salman Rushdie's much-quoted article, Pakistan: a terrorist state. The Booker-prize winning author of Midnight's Children wrote, "As the world braces for the terrorists' response to the death of their leader, it should also demand that Pakistan give satisfactory answers to the very tough questions it must now be asked. If it does not provide those answers, perhaps the time has come to declare it a terrorist state and expel it from the comity of nations."
In the article, They Got Him, The Economist says that it is difficult to believe that Pakistan's "blundering spies" had no idea of the whereabouts of the al-Qaida boss.
"It (the Pakistan government) prefers to plead incompetence, since admitting to the alternative is far more painful: that the Inter-Services Intelligence directorate (ISI), or rogue elements in it, had long harboured Mr bin Laden and that Pakistan's leaders acquiesced in his killing, if at all, only moments before it was done. That seems, to many, the likelier explanation," the article said.
" U s u a l ly smooth-talking ISI men have been giving garbled accounts of what they and their government were up to... More telling is the gobsmacked silence of General Ashfaq Kayani, the powerful army chief, who had long denied that Mr bin Laden was hidden in Pakistan. Only on April 23rd he had brushed away American grumbles that too little was being done to fight terrorists, saying blithely that they would soon be beaten. All the more galling for him, he spoke at Abbottabad's military academy, within waving distance of the most wanted terrorist in the world," the newsmagazine said. Time magazine is equally scathing. An article headlined, "How can we trust them," says that it beggars belief that no knew who was living in that sprawling Abbotabad compound .
The article quotes Christine Fair, an expert at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Languages saying, "Pakistan can be described as both the fireman and the arsonist. It constantly finds ways of renewing its strategic relevance."
The Newsweek has published renowned author Salman Rushdie's much-quoted article, Pakistan: a terrorist state. The Booker-prize winning author of Midnight's Children wrote, "As the world braces for the terrorists' response to the death of their leader, it should also demand that Pakistan give satisfactory answers to the very tough questions it must now be asked. If it does not provide those answers, perhaps the time has come to declare it a terrorist state and expel it from the comity of nations."
(source:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
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