be a panic attack. It’s obvious that the lines between Ms Jahangir’s work as a biased political activist and supporter of the Zardari government and her work as a rights activist have become blurred.
She’s been crying wolf against Pakistan’s military for a long time now, and mostly for political reasons. Her crude anti-military remarks during Husain Haqqani’s trial prove her political bias.
The Defence Ministry’s statement challenging her to register a police case was a right move, but the military institution should legally counter such blatant politically-motivated attacks, which recently have been in sync with the attacks on our military and intelligence from foreign governments that have their own agendas.
Memogate: The now famous anti-Pakistan memo seeking US role in senior appointments inside Pakistan’s military and intelligence agencies was a breathtaking example of treason by any standard in the modern world history. Husain Haqqani’s indictment should not close the case.
The probe should now be expanded to find out his accomplices inside Pakistan. Who were the members of the new national security team that was proposed to take over with a foreign nod had the memo been acted upon?
The former envoy’s spouse had access to the president as his media adviser. The security breach warrants a wider probe now that the question of Haqqani’s culpability is settled.
The US: Let me break a piece of news here. One of the key deal-breakers in the Pak-American talks on restoring the Nato supply line was the question of inspecting the containers entering and exiting Afghanistan via Pakistan’s territory.
The Pakistani side suspects the weapons and other war material in the containers reached anti-Pakistan terrorists in Balochistan and the tribal belt in the past. Pakistani negotiators wanted a foolproof way of ensuring that the material inside the containers does not ‘leak’ inside Pakistan.
Of course it’s not possible to monitor every container once inside the country. So the best way to go was to check the containers at entry and exit. Strangely, the Americans initially refused and then insisted that scanners to check the containers would come from the US.
No they won’t, said the Pakistani side, adding we’re free to procure the scanners from anywhere we want, including China. So, what is the US government really hiding here?
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