People in Pakistan are fed up of the nonsensical mantra from the USA for Pakistan to ‘do more’ in the war on terror. The American and British media, fed on leaks from official sources according to a set design, have led the hound pack in attacking Pakistan, in particular the army and ISI. We have been accused of not only being soft in the fight against terrorism but also for secretly supporting Al-Qaeda and Taliban. Nothing could be more preposterous.
The US and western media continue to criticise Pakistan for not doing enough to arrest Mullah Omar or Ayman-al-Zawahiri while repeatedly claiming that our intelligence agencies know where both of them are hiding. What is the US and European track record in a somewhat similar case? While Osama bin Laden and Ayman-al-Zawahiri had eluded capture for almost nine years, Radovan Karadic, the former Bosnian Serb political leader had thumbed his nose at the West for nearly 13 years until his arrest on July 21, 2008 and that too by Serbian security officers, not NATO.
NATO and EUFOR are also equipped with most advanced electronic, surveillance and technological devices, compared to Pakistan Army, yet they failed to apprehend two Bosnian Serb war criminals. What justification do they have to criticise Pakistan?
MARYA MUFTI
Islamabad