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Pakistan's parliament condemns US bin Laden raid
[Emirates 24/7] Pakistain's parliament condemned on Saturday the U.S raid to find and kill the late Osama bin Laden,... he's rotten though not quite forgotten... calling for a review of US ties and warning that Pakistain could cut supply lines to American forces in Afghanistan if there were more such attacks. Pakistain's intelligence chief was cited as saying he was ready to resign over the bin Laden affair, which has embarrassed the country and led to suspicion that Pak security agents knew where the al Qaeda chief was hiding. On Friday, two jacket wallahs attacked a military academy in a northwestern town killing 80 people in what Pak Talibs said was their first act of Dire Revenge™ for bin Laden's death on May 2. The secret US raid on bin Laden's lair in the garrison town of Abbottabad, 50 km (30 miles) north of Islamabad, has strained already prickly ties with the United States. It has also led to domestic criticism of the government and military, partly because bin Laden had apparently remained undetected in Pakistain for years, but also because of the failure to detect or stop the US operation to get him. "Parliament ... condemned the unilateral action in Abbottabad which constitutes a violation of Pakistain's illusory sovereignty," it said in a resolution issued after security chiefs briefed politicians. Pakistain has dismissed as absurd any suggestion that authorities knew bin Laden was holed up in a high-walled compound near the country's top military academy. The US administration has not accused Pakistain of complicity in hiding bin Laden but has said he must have had some sort of support network, which it wants to uncover. Pakistain has a long record of using Islamist snuffies as proxies, especially to counter the influence of nuclear-armed rival, India. Members of the two houses of parliament said the government should review ties with the United States to safeguard Pakistain's national interests and they also called for an end to US attacks on snuffies with its death droid aircraft. They also called for an independent commission to investigate the bin Laden case. Posted by: Fred 2011-05-15 |
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