Posted on 03/04/2009 6:30:51 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Congress saw the terror attack on Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore as irrefutable evidence Pakistan lapsing into a failed state and warned that unless the trends were arrested, the neighbouring country could fast become the Somalia of south Asia.
Condemning the attack, the party on Tuesday said the international community should take note of the development. "It is now for everyone to see how to dismantle the terror structure in Pakistan," party spokesman Manish Tiwari said at a media briefing.
Quoting former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright, he said Pakistan had become a "migraine" for the international community. He said what caused deep concern was the fact that Pakistan was ceding its territory to the Taliban fundamentalists.
"What Albright called a migraine has now become a time bomb ticking away before going off," he said.
Holding Pakistani authorities responsible for the situation, he said this was the outcome of the policies followed by Islamabad since the 1980s. "The writ of the Pakistani government does not run beyond Islamabad," Tiwari said.
He pointed out that since the attack on Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972, this was the first assault on sportsmen who actually brought two nations closer.
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Pakistan is like Somalia? let’s see — slamic militants running riot, yes. then terror and internecine warface, check again. However, somalia doesnt’ have nukes, does it? And somalia doesn’t receive military aid (in billion$$) from the US, does it?
Yes, the pakis seek to blame everyone for the Taliban except themselves...
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