(PTI) Pakistain today skirted the issue of defending JuD chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed in a US lawsuit filed by relatives of two American Jews killed in the Mumbai attacks, saying it would only protect the interests of ISI officials who had been named in the case.Not that they can be expecting to get any dough...
Pakistain's decision to defend ISI officials in the lawsuit in a Brooklyn court does not apply to "non-officials," Foreign Office front man Abdul Basit told a weekly briefing.
... meaning they've either got to admit Hafiz Saeed's a government agent -- along with his organizations -- or throw him to the legal wolves. Since they don't expect to pay anything it's the wolves for the old Hafiz.
Basit was responding to a question on Saeed's demand that the government should appoint a counsel to defend him in the US court as he is a Pak national and no terror charges had been proved against him.
"Dere's ain't no proof! Da witnesses are all dead!"
"Pakistain will defend its officials. So, here we are talking about officials. As far as defending non-officials is concerned, I would not be in a position to answer your question," Basit said.