ISLAMABAD: The PML-Q on Sunday questioned the government's silence on allowing the United States to allegedly exporting terrorism to Pakistan. "There is a major contradiction in the statements of the US Secretary of State, Clinton, and US nationals' transgression in Pakistan, and if the US doesn't wish to act as a patron, it has no business exporting terrorism to Pakistan in the form of US nationals recently caught in Pakistan, planning terror attacks along with al-Qaeda," PML-Q leader Marvi Memon told The News.She criticised the government's helplessness as accepted by Interior Minister Rehman Malik that they could not take legal action against foreign nationals "caught in aiding terrorism in Pakistan".
"Rehman Malik owes the nation an apology for not fulfilling his promise to resign since Vanity Fair magazine story has proven that Blackwater existed in Pakistan for drone loading and for killing Dr AQ Khan," she added. She also demanded a special parliamentary session to give instructions to the government as to how to deal with the alleged US transgressions so that Pakistan's sovereignty was not made a mockery of and national security was not further compromised. She said this was in direct contrast to Obama's statement of asking Pakistan for helping the US against al-Qaeda.
Marvi said that parliament should be provided with the list of 9,236 visas given by Ambassador Husain Haqqani to Americans during the past four months with details of where each US citizen was stationed and for what purpose. She said parliament was not being allowed to check these nationals as all adjournment motions on this subject were disallowed in parliament. "If parliament is blocked from doing its job, it would be considered as a massive breach of parliamentary privilege." Marvi said if the government had any iota of sovereignty and national self-respect, it would call the US ambassador to the Foreign Office for explaining national policy on our security forces, having right to stop any vehicle for checking. "And after that if any US nationals resist Pakistani security officials from checking their vehicles, they should be dealt with firmly," she added.
She said the recent incidence of fake car number plates, carrying a US citizen, merited the summoning of the US ambassador. However, she said that since the government was busy securing its power, it had accepted the US colonial behaviour and not reacted proportionately. "It is clear from the US nationals behaviour that they saw their role as patrons and colonialists. Kerry Lugar Bill has legalised US colonialism in Pakistan," she added. She said patriotic parliamentarians would resist any efforts by the US to allow deportation of alleged US terrorists.