Osamas killing and our government.

BY: MUHAMMAD AZHAR KHWAJA - Lahore May 5 (THE NATION): American President Barack Hussain Obama in a hastily arranged late Sunday night TV address from the White House gave a good news to his nation and the world at large that an elite US team killed countrys No.1 nemesis, Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, in Abbotabad, Pakistan, bringing to a close the worlds highestprofile man hunt after a decade long hectic search. There were however, no comments from the government of Pakistan either from ministry of foreign affairs or ISPR or from the Presidents House on this blitzkrieg type of action by 35 US Marines which took only 40 minutes to kill, arrest and take off with the dead body of Osama to an unknown destination. They followed the Bushs strategy of Shock and Awe done in Iraq. The nation and the government came to know about this American operation only through American broadcasts. Later we also learnt that they dropped the dead body of their most wanted man in the Indian Ocean. On Monday morning, our government was busy in deciding the power sharing formula with PML(Q) which was perhaps more important than the US attack well inside Pakistan which violated the countrys sovereignty. By evening one could see, our President administering the oath to 14 newly selected ministers from PML(Q) instead of pending this event and calling emergency session of Parliament or Defence Security Council to discuss Americans armed attack inside Pakistan. There are many questions which come to the mind on this operation. Firstly, was it a total failure of Pakistan Intelligence to know about OBL if he was in Pakistan? We have more authentic informers than USA in our country. I think our ISI and MI are the most feared and powerful agencies of the world. If the CIA suspected his location months ago, why did they not share it with its coalition partner i.e Pakistan? Now coming to the actual action which Barack Obama and his team were monitoring live sitting in White House, where is the footage of this video and the image of OBL? In fact there was no need to kill him as he could have been arrested alive by laying a siege of the compound and asking him to surrender along with his comrades. Such a high profile person would have divulged his complete network all over the world during interrogation. Finally what was the hurry to dispose off his dead body? The US government should have shown the complete video of the operation and the killing of OBL to the entire world thus avoiding the suspicion that the intelligentsia is having over this operation. The bullet ridden dead body released by the CIA is an old image of 2009 which was seen on the internet and perhaps it is not that of OBL. Everyone relates this incident to the credible evidence that USA had about the WMD in Iraq which came out to be a false report of CIA as they could not find any thing in Iraq. Finally, what Pakistan government is going to do next? Only Imran Khan and the Jamaat-i-Islami Amir has asked the USA government to leave this region as they have achieved their goal by killing OBL. We can definitely fight our own war on terror effectively which we are already doing. The Pakistanis feel that once US and NATO troops leave this region, there would not be any terrorism and we shall have all peace. LETTER

(THROUGH ASIA PULSE)