THAT Americans are bent upon destabilizing Pakistan has once again been confirmed by the latest venomous remarks churned out by Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who has leveled the allegation that the Pakistani Government sanctioned the murder of journalist Saleem Shahzad. Obviously, this is part of the calculated and orchestrated propaganda campaign to paint Pakistan in black and bring into disrepute its Government and national institutions. The killing of Saleem Shahzad evoked strong reaction in Pakistan with both the Government and the civil society condemning his murder.
In order to dig out the truth, the Government has already accepted demand of the journalistic community for constitution of a judicial commission, which is currently probing the incident and has summoned prominent journalists as well to help advance the process. This shows the will of the Government to get to the bottom of the tragic killing of the journalist but it is pertinent to point out that Americans have been taking extraordinary interest in the case. From the day one, they were in the forefront of efforts to organize protest marches and rallies to condemn the incident and for this purpose they activated some particular NGOs who were instrumental in maligning Pakistan Army and especially the ISI, as this served the American purpose to put maximum pressure on Pakistan’s security apparatus. Killing of Saleem Shahzad is purely an internal issue and it is satisfactorily being handled but despite all this comments and remarks of officials of some foreign countries and media are understandable as it involved the issue of human and fundamental rights. Therefore, while routine remarks by State Department spokespersons would be understandable, one fails to understand what locus standi the top military leader of the United States has to comment on the incident. This is unusual and unbecoming on the part of a military leader to talk about such issues which otherwise fall within the domain of the diplomacy and therefore, raise the question as to what connections Americans had with the slain journalist. His allegations are also intriguing and reflective of total mental bankruptcy as how on earth a Government worth the name would approve killing of its own citizens. American Government itself is sanctioning killing of people of other countries on different pretexts including preventive strikes and regime change but it would be ridiculous to think that it would order killing of its own citizens. The allegation is nothing but mischief of the extreme sort and deserves to be rejected with contempt.
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