Posted on 01/07/2009 11:22:09 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan fired the national security adviser hours after Indian media quoted him as saying the surviving Mumbai attacker was Pakistani, a sign of strain on the weak civilian administration as it tries to respond to heated Indian allegations over the deadly assault. Mahmood Ali Durrani was fired Wednesday because "he gave media interviews on national security issues without consulting the prime minister," said Imran Gardaizi, spokesman for Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.
The decision was an odd turn of events because other Pakistani officials, including the information minister, confirmed Mohammed Ajmal Kasab's nationality the same day to domestic and international media outlets.
Durrani has been an active proponent of improving India-Pakistan ties, authoring papers on the subject and bringing retired and serving Indian military personnel to Pakistan to encourage better military relations.
His national security appointment was controversial from the start—some considered the former ambassador to Washington too pro-American—so this could have been an excuse to get rid of him, said political analyst Talat Masood.
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The government spokesman made the announcement that the lone surviving terrorist was Pakistani, while the prime minister’s men were busy keeping the terrorists parents under hiding, lest they reveal all. The embarrassment made the PM fire the spokesman.
Muslims are now and again devious bastards, but Pakistanis take it to an altogether new level.
If tomorrow the great and powerful ozbama could get his islambie brethren to lay down their arms on a global basis we would have a world in virtual peace...and who is the problem again, Bush, Israel, etc.????
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Pakistan have to take some action on Terrorist camp and as per news in SWAT Baddi there are Taliban’s militants are living and apply talibani rules....
>>Pakistanis take it to an altogether new level.
Well, it’s hard to blame them, considering how succesful their games have been for so long and so lucrative for the Army.
It’s really not their fault that we’ve been buying their line all these years.
Pakistan’s interests do not run parallel to America’s all the time or vice versa.
But this guy made a major error; admitting Kasab is Pakistani, it wrecks the current duplicitous game being played by Kayani. Yes, our ally, who else could approve and task the resources for such an operation.
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