ISLAMABAD
Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani Monday said Pakistan is not ‘birth place’
of Al-Qaeda and did not invite Osama bin Laden to come to Pakistan or even to
Afghanistan. Addressing the National
Assembly on the incident of Abbottabad in which Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden
was killed by US Marines on May 2, the Prime Minister said, “It is fair to ask
who was Osama bin Laden and what did he personify?”The Prime Minister said,
“Is it necessary for us to remind the international community of the decade of
the nineties which saw the Arab volunteers, who had joined the Jihad mutate into
Al-Qaeda.”He
questioned to the world community “Who was responsible for the birth of Al-Qaeda
? Who was responsible for making the myth of Osama bin Laden ?”
While posing these
questions to the international community, the Prime Minister Gilani said to find
the answers to these question, it is necessary to revisit the not so distant
past.
“Collectively, we must acknowledge facts and see our faces in the mirror of history,” said the Prime Minister on the making of Osama bin Laden.
Without naming any country, the Prime Minister said, “Pakistan alone cannot be held to account for flawed policies and blunders of others.”
He said Osama bin Laden was the most wanted terrorist and enemy number one of the civilized world, therefore his elimination, who launched waves after waves of terrorists attacks against innocent Pakistanis, is indeed justice done.
The Prime Minister said even after the death of Osama, his myth and legacy remains to be demolished.
The anger and frustration of ordinary people over injustice, oppression and tyranny that he sought to harness to fuel the fire of terrorism in the world, needs to be addressed, he added. APP
“Collectively, we must acknowledge facts and see our faces in the mirror of history,” said the Prime Minister on the making of Osama bin Laden.
Without naming any country, the Prime Minister said, “Pakistan alone cannot be held to account for flawed policies and blunders of others.”
He said Osama bin Laden was the most wanted terrorist and enemy number one of the civilized world, therefore his elimination, who launched waves after waves of terrorists attacks against innocent Pakistanis, is indeed justice done.
The Prime Minister said even after the death of Osama, his myth and legacy remains to be demolished.
The anger and frustration of ordinary people over injustice, oppression and tyranny that he sought to harness to fuel the fire of terrorism in the world, needs to be addressed, he added. APP
