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| List Pakistain as state sponsor of terrorism: US Congress committee |
| 2016-07-14 |
| [NATION.PK] Top US lawmakers on Tuesday called for cutting financial aid and imposing sanctions against Pakistan while prominent think tanks said it is time to consider putting Pakistan on the list of state sponsor of terrorism. "Patience (on Pakistan) is growing very thin," Congressman Matt Salmon, Chairman of the Asia and Pacific subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said. Just cutting off the funding is not going to be enough, he said and sought for additional measures. "Those who suggest giving aid to Pakistan need to give justification for using the tax payer’s money," Congressman Brad Sherman, Ranking member of the subcommittee joined Salmon and other lawmakers for actions against Pakistan. Congressman William Keating, Pro India member of the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Non-Proliferation and Trade argued that there is little reason to believe that Pakistan is going to change its policies of using terrorism as a tool to meet its strategic needs. Two of the top al Qaeda leaders have been killed in Pakistan, he said. Keating that the US arms supply to Pakistan is unlikely to help it in the fight against terrorism, but would arm it to be used against India. Meanwhile, former top diplomats and think tanks said it is time that US consider putting Pakistan on the list of state sponsor of terrorism. American lawmakers and experts said Pakistan has been treating the US like chumps. "They are making chumps out of us. They see us we are being so stupid. It seems like paying the mafia," said Congressman Matt Salmon, Chairman of the Asia and Pacific subcommittee of House Foreign Affairs Committee. "If I may use an undiplomatic term. We have been patsies," former Bush era top diplomat Zalmay Khalilzad told lawmakers along with others how Pakistani leadership had gamed the American system for decades. "Patsies chumps. Most Americans see out of this and yet our so called leaders do not really get it," Salmon added. Bill Roggio, senior editor of the Long War Journal Foundation for Defense of Democracies along with Khalilzad called for cutting aid toPakistan and put them in the list of State Sponsor of terrorism. "Pakistanis are very clever in manipulating us. I have to say that," said Khalilzad, sharing his experience of dealing with the Pakistani leadership when he served in various diplomatic position in the Bush era including the US ambassador to Afghanistan and the Permanent Representative of the US to the UN. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 The Pakistan arm of the international Muslim Brotherhood movement, the Jamaat-e-Islami, was founded by the Mulana Abdu Ala Maududi in 1941. Still a powerful and influential movement in Pakistan, it has from its inception sought the destruction of the West. It has helped spawn nearly a dozen Islamist movements, and has long infiltrated the Pakistan military. The US played Uncle Sugar to the Pak military during the war in Afghanistan. And without reason, that relationship continues to this date and should be ended. Now. |
| Posted by: Voldemort Barnsmell8316 2016-07-14 09:21 |