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| Pak would have been like Iraq but for war on terror: Kasuri | | |
Islamabad, Nov 4 Describing America as the "sole superpower", Pakistan has said if it had not joined the US-led war on terror the situation in the country would have been like that of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Pakistan had decided to join the US-led war on terror "in the best national interest" failing which it could otherwise have faced a fate like that of Iraq and Afghanistan, the country's Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri said at a the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee here yesterday.
Reacting to criticism from a leader of the Jamat Ulema Islami (JUI) on the raids on a madrasa on the Afghan border reportedly training al Qaeda militants, Kasuri said, "we should learn lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan and admit the fact that the US is the sole superpower of the world." About the anti-terrorist and anti-extremist operations being carried out in the country by Pakistani forces, he said "had we not carried out these operations the US would have done it itself, and we did not want that." Eightytwo people were killed in the missile attack on a madrasa run by the Jamate-i-Islami (JI).
Islamabad while defending its decision to carry out the attack had also released a detailed video footage taken by an aerial surveillance vehicle which depicted a large number of people carrying out mass drills.
"The Foreign Affairs Ministry has nothing to do with this. These questions should be asked from ministries of interior or defence," Kasuri was quoted as saying by local daily 'Dawn'. |
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