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| Give explanation or resign: Nisar | |
| 2011-05-08 | |
| [Dawn] Pakistain's elected leaders on Saturday came under mounting pressure to resign in the wake of a US commando operation that killed the late Osama bin Laden ... who no longer has to waste time and energy breathing... not far from the capital Islamabad. Navy SEALs in three helicopters raided a three-storey house in the garrison city of Abbottabad last Sunday night, killing bin Laden and flying off with his body, which was later buried at sea. As the covert operation piled embarrassment on Pakistain's civil and military leadership, the leader of the parliamentary opposition demanded that President
President Ten PercentZardari ... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ... and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani resign. "The operation tramples on our honour and dignity, and the president and prime minister must either give an explanation or resign," Chaudhry Nisar Ali told news hounds. "The government is keeping silent and there appears to be nobody to respond to propaganda against Pakistain," he added, saying that people in the country were feeling "insecure" after the covert US mission. The fact that bin Laden was living in a garrison city less than a mile from a top military academy has fanned US suspicions that elements of Pakistain's intelligence services may have known his whereabouts and been protecting him. "Those who are responsible must admit and quit," said Ali. He also criticised the country's powerful intelligence agencies, saying that Pak institutions had "deviated from their real role". | |
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