The only way to restore standing is to charge with full speed ahead.
Shed the initial weakness and question the loopholes in the Indian
story. The firing of Mr. Durrani provides a great opportunity to
revise Pakistan's talking points on Mumbai. Please don't let this
opportunity slide.
By AHMED QURAISHI
Thursday, 8 January 2008.
WWW.AHMEDQURAISHI.COM
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan-Mr. Prime Minister, your national security adviser
has screwed up big time. His strange moves and actions prove that
people appointed by President Zardari have brought Pakistani diplomacy
down to its knees in the past six weeks. This was by design and not
just incompetence.
Your prompt action of sacking Mr. M. A. Durrani restored the
confidence of Pakistanis.
His crime is engineering his leaks in a way that make everyone think
that Kassab's links to Pakistan confirm Pakistan's culpability in the
crime.
This, as we show you below, is not the case.
After input from several sources, published and unpublished, I would
like to propose here a few actions your government can take to stem
the damage and restore Pakistan's credibility. Please take this
seriously because the following is the gist of the hardwork of some
fine Pakistani women and men.
1. We Don't Trust India. Period.
Please have yourself or your foreign minister or one of your
spokespeople say this clearly. We don't trust Indian investigations.
India's intents and hostile posturing make it impossible for us to
take its evidence at face value. Indian evidence - including Kassab
and the dead bodies in Indian custody - will have to be examined by
Pakistani experts. Consular access alone is not acceptable.
2. Kassab Or Not, India's Dossier Is Doctored.
Colin Powell presented fake evidence, complete with pictures and
illustrations, to UNSC in February 2003. It led to invading Iraq.
Today, Pakistan has reason to believe India Raw is doing the same on
backing of the USA CIA. Regional powers like Iran, China, Russia and
Saudi Arabia are trying to defuse the situation and it works when they
speak. However when ever any US, UK or Isreali official speaks on
Bombay blast. They always try to create hype. Their statements are
always wrapped in riddle. Moreover international blinds and deaf like
BBC and CNN are also playing their part to bring the whole region to
disasters. Destroying nations and initiating wars with help of fake
evidence in high profile cases to gain mileage does happen and has
precedent. Let us not be apologetic.
3. Pakistan Must Ask India To Pursue All Other Leads In Mumbai Investigation.
The Indian government is hiding the complete facts from its people. It
has quashed other equally important leads in the tragedy other than
the suspicion of Pakistani involvement. Pakistan demands that India
pursue all leads with transparency.
4. Pakistan Must Demand India Share Evidence With Interpol
India's refusal to allow Interpol investigators examine the evidence
is suspicious.
5. Questions Surrounding Kassab And The Other Terrorists
Pakistani official media and spokespeople must float the following questions:
5.1 Kassab was the only terrorist that was photographed by an unknown
Indian source. He was the only one to stay alive and the only one to
have been found to be Pakistani national. Pakistani suspicions about
the circumstances of Kassab's involvement are serious and require
India to make him available to Pakistani investigators. We need to
examine on location how this one terrorist was pictured, who took the
picture, and why no one else appeared in the pictured.
5.2 Indian media reports said the bodies of the remaining nine
terrorists were mutilated. Where did India get the studio pictures it
released of the dead?
5.3 Where is the DNA testing and fingerprints of the dead terrorists?
5.4 India's proven record of abuse and secret detention of Pakistanis
in Indian jails must be officially raised to show that Pakistan
suspects the circumstances of the involvement of these terrorists whom
India alleges are Pakistanis.
6. T-Shirts, Toothpaste and Shaving Cream is not evidence. It is a
joke. No case can be built on this.
7. Why would ISI, a professional intelligence service, leave such
telltale signs behind, if it's involved as India claims?
8. Why would ISI kill Hemant Karkare, the brave Indian police officer
who exposed how active duty Indian army offices conspired with Hindu
terrorists to kill 60 Pakistani visitors to India in 2006?
9. The email, audio tape and telephone evidence is suspect unless and
until it is examined by Pakistani experts. To see how these things can
be faked, please click here.
The extent of damage that President Zardari and his foreign policy
team - sacked security advisor M. A. Durrani, Washington ambassador
Husain Haqqani, and U.N. ambassador Abdullah Hussain Haroon - have
caused to Pakistani credibility and diplomacy is staggering.
The only way to restore standing is to charge with full speed ahead.
The firing of Mr. Durrani provides a great opportunity to revise
Pakistan's talking points on Mumbai. Please don't let this opportunity
slide.
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