This is not the first time the interior minister has interrupted an investigation into violence with some poorly thought-out remarks. When Karachi was plagued by target killings, Rehman Malik thought it apt to speculate that most of the killings were being carried out by irate wives and girlfriends. Investigations into the PNS Mehran attack were only just underway when the interior minister said that the attackers resembled Star Wars characters. For a man in such a sensitive position, the interior minister should have learned by now that discretion is the better part of valour. Since that lesson has obviously escaped him, it is time that the president and prime minister muzzle him. He should no longer be allowed to make his bizarre and unhelpful statements so soon after tragedy has struck.
In the controversy over Malik’s statements, we should also remember that ultimately it doesn’t matter whether the bomb was planted or if it was detonated by a suicide bomber. It still took eight lives, including that of a child. In due course, investigations will prove what kind of attack it was. Far more important, though, is that the investigations find out who was behind the attack.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 26th, 2011.
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Please memorize the above few lines by heart because this is the correct and verbatim translation, free from the contamination of Indian and US propaganda.
@buttjee: translation of your post = continuing support to terrorists?
for the first time all of pakistan is united for a single cause other than cricket usually some support some reject but now all pakistanis are saying you know what a starving pakistani is better than COLLATERAL DAMAGE
@buttjee Well Said
Even if Pakistan accepts the US demand of moving the troops into North Waziristan the matter will not end at that. The US will come up yet with another demand of DO MORE and fresh conditions attached with economic and military aid. We must realize that the US along with India is working on a long term plan in which Pakistan's national security interests have no place. US knows well that by moving the troops against Haqqnis and the TTP groups in North Waziristan, Pakistan will fall into the grip of a fresh and a very lethal wave of terrorism which will totally destabilize our country. A destabilized and weakened Pakistan will then be the play ground for the separatist elements who with the help of US and Indian intelligence agencies may declare independence in their respective provinces. People of Pakistan have to wake up and get united to thwart the US and Indian designs. Instead of standing up to US at that late stage we have to tell US that enough is enough. We have been cooperating with you very sincerely but now we are not prepared accept your blackmailing and bullying. ALLAH-O-AKBAR--- PAKISTAN ZINDABAD