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Monday, October 19, 2009
KLB, NRO discussed in Geo programme ‘Meray Mutabiq’
News Desk
RAWALPINDI: Commenting over the passage of the Kerry-Lugar Bill, the Wall Street Journal says the Congress had managed to pierce their fingers into Pakistan’s eyes. It says the assistance of $705 billion would have been a major political breakthrough but each member of the House of Representatives had attempted to evolve his own foreign policy as if there were 435 foreign secretaries in the US. Every one of them had decided to put forward his foreign policy.
In the Geo TV programme “Meray Mutabiq” Dr Shahid Masood while referring to the American journal’s observations said the bill was adopted along with preconditions. He said the US chairman Foreign Relations Committee had insisted that the conditions placed in the bill should be retained in the final demand to be fulfilled by Pakistan. The journal informs that the Indian lobby was very much in the entire process.
Tehrik-e-Insaf Chief Imran Khan described the adoption of KLB as yet another chapter of “Pakistan’s slavery”. He said the bill was supposed to go to the Parliament first. He said even the US ambassador in Islamabad had indicated that the bill was in violation of the country’s sovereignty. The US seeks direct access to the people of Pakistan through the bill. “Is it not violation of national sovereignty,” he asked. He was amazed as to why US holds Pakistan responsible for any terrorist incident taking place elsewhere.
Commenting on the views of the opposition and the Parliament over KLB, he said the PML-N claims that it wanted to save the system but it were the masses that could save democracy the way they had forced to restore judiciary.
Taking part in he programme, Group Editor The News Shaheen Sehbai said ‘Minus One’ formula being talked for quite some time is now in place with the conspicuous absence of President Asif Ali Zardari from the recent meeting of the political and military leadership in Islamabad aimed at discussing the Waziristan operation and security situation in the country. He felt that it was the reason that the entire opposition attended the meeting peacefully and there was no hue and cry.
He said that a Pandora’s box had been opened with the tabling of the NRO in the Parliament and both the houses are set to vote over it. The NRO factor will take over the scenario on the political front. Its debate will expose many issues. The government will confront difficulties during its voting because it appears that even members of the treasury benches including ANP, JUI and MQM are hesitant to favour the government stance. The government will have to open up its treasure in case it was decided to purchase the members.
He said along with all its preconditions, the KLB is now a law. The explanatory note added later had no value. The way the foreign minister manoeuvred to adjourn the parliament proceedings, as soon as he finished his speech, proves that he was afraid of any demand that may be raised for voting. He said 90% of the speakers in the house had opposed the KLB. That’s why he preferred to runaway.
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