JI Ameer slams arrest of scientists [Terrorist Spin Alert]

Lahore, Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami and MMA acting president Qazi Hussain Ahmad has strongly condemned the fresh arrests of nuclear scientists and termed it worst kind of victimization of national heroes to please the Bush administration.

In a statement, Qazi Hussain Ahmad called the arrests humiliation and harassment of national heroes on the behest of Washington. He said, those scientists toiled day and night to make national defense unconquerable but the manner in which they were picked up in the darkness of the night and mentally tortured in the name of ‘de-briefing’ bowed the heads of all patriotic citizens with shame.

The JI leader said the criminal attitude of Musharraf regime with national award holder nuclear scientists could not be tolerated under any circumstances.

He said the US was dreaming of ruling the whole world and could not tolerate independence and sovereignty of any self respecting nation. He termed it sheer bad luck that present rulers had jeopardized national security and solidarity since they were coward enough to stand the absurd demands of the US. He said the nation was proud of its nuclear scientists and felt the agony of their harassment like their family members.

"In 1983 a Dutch court convicted Dr. Abdul Qader Khan, head of Pakistan's nuclear program, on charges of stealing the blueprints for a uranium enrichment factory. . . . Kahn's lawyer was paid by BCCI.

"In 1984, three Pakistani nationals were indicted in Houston for attempting to buy and ship to Pakistan, high-speed switches designed to trigger nuclear weapons. The trio offered to pay in gold supplied by BCCI.

"In 1987 two Americans, Rita and Arnold Mandel, together with Hong Kong businessman Leung Yu Hung, were indicted by the U.S. Attorney in Sacramento, California, on charges of illegal importations of $1 billion worth of oscilloscopes and computer equipment for Pakistan's nuclear program. . . . BCCI facilitated [some of the shipments]"

"In 1987 in Philadelphia, Ashad Pervez, a Pakistani-born Canadian, was indicted for conspiring to export restricted specialty steel and metal used to enhance nuclear explosions. ... He . . . paid high prices with money delivered to the Toronto BCCI branch from BCCI London" (Rachel Ehrenfeld, Evil Money, HarperCollins, 1992).

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