LAHORE: Former President and Chief of All Pakistan Muslim League
(APML) Pervez Musharraf has said that those who are criticizing ISI on
the presence of Osama in Pakistan, forgot failure of CIA on 9/11 when
planes were high jacked and important buildings were targeted.
While
addressing APML Youth Convention here on Sunday, Pervez Musharraf said
that any secret agency could be failed. It could be a failure for not
tracing Bin Laden but it didn’t mean to forget all the endeavors of
ISI. Pakistan’s security forces have played a pivotal role in the war
against terrorism and the world should acknowledge these sacrifices.
He
said that decision to participate in the war against terrorism was made
in the longer interest of the country and according to circumstances
existed a decade ago was right verdict in the right direction. The
former president said decision to support the US and participate in the
war against terrorism was the need of the hour and if Pakistan had not
agreed to play a frontline role in the US-led war, the country would
have had to face the combined military might of US and India.
“Pakistan
didn’t accept all the American demands but only those US demands were
accepted that were also in the country’s interest. America had demanded
Pakistan’s airspace but Pakistan allowed only two air-bases and
specific corridors to US and most importantly these bases were given
only for logistics purposes as any fighter plane was not allowed to
take-off from these bases and Pakistan ensure implementation on these
instructions seriously”, Pervez Musharraf clarified.
He urged
Pakistanis, particularly the youth, to remain united against all
internal and external threats. APML Chief said, Pakistan has to face
uncountable damage in the war against terrorism, however Pakistan’s
future is glorious due to youth of Pakistan. Online
