Mushahid terms 9/11'Greater Israel agenda'

Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed has said that 25 years after the events of 9/11, the United States has emerged weaker, conceding space to China, while Muslim middle powers in the Middle East have become more relevant in a transformed world.

'The biggest change is that before 9/11, the US was the 'sole superpower' but now that's no longer the case," he said during a talk hosted by the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) in the federal capital on Tuesday.

In his comprehensive presentation, Mushahid presented a fact sheet titled '9/11 in 25 years: the date that changed the world' that quoted a Brown University study which stated that the US squandered $8 trillion in 20 years after 9/11, resulting in 38 million people displaced and 5 million direct or indirect deaths as well as 324,000 drones, bombs and missiles expended in battle-front countries like Afghanistan, former FATA region in Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and Lebanon.

Citing American sources, he also said that it is well known that the Pentagon had decided to launch wars against seven Muslim countries including Iraq, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia and Sudan just nine days after 9/11.