[ARABNEWS] Islamabad will formally ask Britannia for assistance in investigating claims by the BBC that a leading Pak political party received money and military training from India, the interior minister said Thursday.The report, published Wednesday and citing an "authoritative Pak source," said members of Pakistain's Muttahida Qaumi Movement
...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead...
(MQM) party had received military training at camps in northern and north-eastern India over the past 10 years.
India is regarded with deep suspicion and hostility by many Paks, and claims of collusion can be highly damaging.
According to the BBC report, MQM members had been given training in "explosives, weapons and sabotage" by New Delhi.
It was vehemently denied by New Delhi and by the MQM, which has its power base in the southern city of Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
and which critics accuse of ruling using violence and extortion. Speaking to news hounds Thursday, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan
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Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle FesterSharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain
publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture...
said: "I am going to address a letter to the British government on behalf of our government tomorrow to officially ask them to give Pakistain access to the BBC report, the facts and the investigation."