[Dawn] Finally the politico-religious parties of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
have come out of hibernation, issuing statements that they have no proof to deny killing of the late Osama bin Laden
... he's rotten though not quite forgotten...
but the US has also no evidence to show what it claims.
| There's negative as well as positive proof, you ninnies. The negative proof is the lack of new pronouncements from the dear departed, other than the usual martyrdom video. The positive proof is the disappearance/arrest/death and dismemberment of those whose names might have been mentioned anywhere in the bin Laden trove. (We won't even address the claim of DNA results, because y'all believe Allah can do to DNA and tests what He wills.) But when the herd has been thinned enough, the remainder will believe their abstemious, mansion-housed hero is indeed dead. |
The leaderships of Jamaat-i-Islami and Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl, inheritors of the political ideology of bin Laden, put their heads together here on Wednesday to discuss the post-Osama scenario.
| That sounds like they actually do believe, despite claims otherwise. |
With confused mind, the religious parties are still in a state of disbelief whether Al Qaeda chief had been killed in midnight operation by the US Navy Seals in Abbottabad on Monday. Religious parties in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa didn`t organise rallies and protest demonstrations and many remained tightlipped about the incident.
An activist of a religious party said that those groups, which thrived largely on anti-American sentiments of people, swung into action only when they got green signal from "invisible forces."
"When the dust is settled then religious parties may get a go-ahead signal and will show reaction," he said.
Jamaat-i-Islami provincial chief Senator Ibrahim Khan said that US government claims regarding killing of Osama and his immediate burial in the sea required some credible evidences.
| "Show the photos, Mr. President." |
"We could not completely reject US claims but Washington should have to prove that Osama was killed in that specific compound," Senator Ibrahim told journalists after attending meeting at the party`s headquarters.
He said the question was why America didn`t show Osama`s body to the international media. Those questions needed satisfactory answers, he said, adding otherwise the news would find no takers.
He said that America had violated international law by sending its helicopters and forces into a sovereign country and carried out so-called operation in Abbottabad. He said that international law didn`t permit any foreign power to invade another country.
| International law also doesn't allow a government to host forces which attack other countries, whether Afghanistan, India, or Denmark. Sauce for the gander/sauce for the goose, Senator Ibrahim. |
Senator Ibrahim said that statement issued by the foreign office and other agencies in Islamabad had also created confusion. He termed President Zardari a major security risk for the country.
JUI-F, a staunch supporter of Taliban, has yet to come out of the confusion and doesn`t believe in the US claims. The party senior leader and former MNA Maulana Shujaul Mulk said that people didn`t accept that Americans would hunt down their enemy number one with so ease.
| *Knock, knock* "Candy-gram." |
"Nobody will buy the US claim. And how can people believe that Osama will stay in a large compound without guards and security," he said. The former parliamentarian from Mardan said that his party was evaluating the situation and would chalk out its future strategy. |