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| Pakistan will brook no dictation, says PM |
| 2010-12-24 |
| [Dawn] Reacting to opposition challenges and a controversy fuelled by media reports, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani assured the National Assembly on Thursday his government would not succumb to any foreign dictation about when and where to launch a military operation in the so-called war on terrorism. And he also said nobody could force any official of the country's top spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), to comply with reported summons from a US court for appearance in a case related to the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai. Opposition leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan had raised the issue of the reported summons from a New York court for the present and a former chief of the ISI and two serving Pakistain Army majors in a lawsuit accusing them of training and facilitating the Mumbai attackers, asking the government not to let it happen or allow any foreign power to make Pak institutions hostage despite his own "reservations" about the role of intelligence agencies within the country. The question of alleged US pressure on Pakistain to launch a military operation in North Wazoo against Taliban and Al Qaeda hideouts was raised by Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman Known as Mullah Dieselduring the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ... in an anti-government tirade over his party's decision last week to quit the PPP-led coalition over the sacking of a party minister for alleged indiscipline. But the prime minister, in his response, only referred to the speech of the opposition leader -- who also complained about alleged humiliation of a grandson of the late Baloch leader Akbar Khan Bugti while being jugged near Quetta on Wednesday for allegedly carrying illegal arms -- and seemed to ignore the JUI leader, who had spoken earlier in his absence, accusing the PPP of breaking "a string of friendship" with his party, bowing to perceived American dictates in the war on terror and being a threat to Sharia, which he said his party wanted enforced. "It will be a fallacy to think that we will take any action under their pressure," the prime minister said about the alleged US pressure, often reported by western media but denied by American officials, adding that there would be "no compromise on Pakistain's integrity and illusory sovereignty". "This will be a decision of the Pak nation where and when we have to launch an operation and nobody can dictate to us (from the outside)," he said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Pak would actually have to be a unified nation before anyone could dictate to it. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-12-24 14:49 |