Pakistan on Friday criticised as “extremely irresponsible” remarks from the top US military officer saying that Islamabad may have approved the killing of a Pakistani journalist.
Admiral Mike Mullen, when asked about media reports that the Pakistani government approved Saleem Shahzad’s killing, said: “I haven’t seen anything that would disabuse that report.”
But when asked if Pakistan’s intelligence service had been involved, Mullen said he could not confirm the allegation.
The remarks aggravated relations already strained by a covert US raid north of Islamabad in May that killed Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and the killing of two men by a CIA contractor in Lahore in January.
In a statement released by the information ministry, the government described Mullen’s remarks, if true as attributed, as “extremely irresponsible” and said it “does not help” in getting to the bottom of Shahzad’s death.
The government last month set up a judicial commission to investigate how the reporter died and the information ministry said such comments could be considered an attempt to influence the outcome of the inquiry.
Mullah Mullen's remarks are a like paid political advertisement not a statement worth wide dissemination.
It didn't matter what you thought or Pakistani Govt said. Mullen's words are taken seriously world-wide and accepted (for good reasons) — as did Karamat's story…
There is nothing beyond the current Pakistani Government that it may not do. These vedaras and illitrate thugs can do and will do whatever they would like to do. The ongoing corruption, ignoring judiciary's decesions and not even attemping to stop the killing of people in Karachi and other parts of Pakistan tells the whole story about these ignorant leaders.
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