by Aneela Shahzad
If Pakistan tries to go a step towards finding the truth behind the Abbottabad raid, by interrogating Dr. Afridi, it should consider the consequence of being physically at wars with the US.
When Bin Laden was acclaimed dead in the Abbottabad raid, May 2011, Pakistan was faced with international humiliation on the grounds that it was either covertly harboring the terrorist or its intelligence machinery was dysfunctional to the extent that it had no idea that the worlds most wanted man was stationed peacefully at the hub of its military institutions.
The baffled Pakistan government, at that time, had no choice but to comply with the claims of a military forced superimposed by a global media coverage, submitting that it had really failed to track down Bin Laden in its own backyard, but that all the same it had complied with the US to use their own tactics and obediently allowed them to use our air space and raid any point of our land to crack down on OBL at will.
This submission of the government placed the Pak. Army in an even shameful position at that time, when it had to give contradicting statements as to how the air-space had been violated, how the intelligence had failed and what of the sovereignty of the country?
Unable to openly declare, that the whole drama staged at Abbottabad stood on shifting sands.
In such a scenario when the government and the army have equally been disgraced as inefficient, it was only good enough of the state to make full inquiry of the case and find out how a Dr. Afridi had connived with an extra-state establishment without consent of the Pakistan government, to assist in recovering Bin Laden. This case and its sentence reassures to the people of Pakistan that at the least, the state machine admits that it was unaware of the layout of this mission and considers it treason in part of the Doctor to conform with the CIA over and above the state machine; that any compliance in the war on terror should have been under the allowance of the state. And that the state of Pakistan does not approve of any breach in its sovereignty even by the world’s supposed superpower.
Rohrabacher’s statement that Dr. Afridi’s prison sentence is “decisive proof that Pakistan sees itself as being at war” with the US, should actually be interpreted as ‘if Pakistan tries to go a step towards finding the truth behind the Abbottabad raid, by interrogating Dr. Afridi, it should consider the consequence of being physically at wars with the US.
If Pakistan tries to go a step towards finding the truth behind the Abbottabad raid, by interrogating Dr. Afridi, it should consider the consequence of being physically at wars with the US.
When Bin Laden was acclaimed dead in the Abbottabad raid, May 2011, Pakistan was faced with international humiliation on the grounds that it was either covertly harboring the terrorist or its intelligence machinery was dysfunctional to the extent that it had no idea that the worlds most wanted man was stationed peacefully at the hub of its military institutions.
The baffled Pakistan government, at that time, had no choice but to comply with the claims of a military forced superimposed by a global media coverage, submitting that it had really failed to track down Bin Laden in its own backyard, but that all the same it had complied with the US to use their own tactics and obediently allowed them to use our air space and raid any point of our land to crack down on OBL at will.
This submission of the government placed the Pak. Army in an even shameful position at that time, when it had to give contradicting statements as to how the air-space had been violated, how the intelligence had failed and what of the sovereignty of the country?
Unable to openly declare, that the whole drama staged at Abbottabad stood on shifting sands.
In such a scenario when the government and the army have equally been disgraced as inefficient, it was only good enough of the state to make full inquiry of the case and find out how a Dr. Afridi had connived with an extra-state establishment without consent of the Pakistan government, to assist in recovering Bin Laden. This case and its sentence reassures to the people of Pakistan that at the least, the state machine admits that it was unaware of the layout of this mission and considers it treason in part of the Doctor to conform with the CIA over and above the state machine; that any compliance in the war on terror should have been under the allowance of the state. And that the state of Pakistan does not approve of any breach in its sovereignty even by the world’s supposed superpower.
Rohrabacher’s statement that Dr. Afridi’s prison sentence is “decisive proof that Pakistan sees itself as being at war” with the US, should actually be interpreted as ‘if Pakistan tries to go a step towards finding the truth behind the Abbottabad raid, by interrogating Dr. Afridi, it should consider the consequence of being physically at wars with the US.
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