LAHORE, Apr 1: Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Syed Munawar Hasan has said that the CIA Director Michael Hayden's statement regarding the tribal areas of Pakistan is the same kind of 'white lies' and 'pretext' which Washington used to befool the world before invading and destroying Iraq in garb of searching Weapons of Mass Destruction, which were never found in that country.

He was addressing a training workshop of JI office bearers here Tuesday, says a JI spokesman in a press release.

He said Pakistan should take extremely serious notice of such threats which also amount to attacking our independence and sovereignty.

He said America has made military operations and air attacks in the tribal areas during the last seven years by taking advantage of Gen Musharraf's coward policies, who shamelessly tolerated the naked aggression of American and Nato forces on Pakistani territory but also owned it as Pakistani forces' work in order to continue his illegal rule.

He said Musharraf continued using Pakistan army against Pakistani people until Feb 18 when situation changed after Musharraf's party suffered worst electoral defeat, paving way for a real democratic government in the country. A really democratic government was against the expectations of Washington and American officials kept visiting Islamabad to convince and 'force' new political leadership to continue with Gen Musharraf and American War on Terror, he said. Munawar added that recently, John Negroponte and Richard Boucher visited country when the formation of new government was in final phase and held extensive meetings but failed in their objectives. The statement of CIA director is part of the same strategy, he said.

Munawar said the issue of presence of Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda and Taliban in tribal areas is not new, and it has been raised time and again by Americans and their agents. But this time a slight change has been made by stating that Al Qaeda has recruited 'White Western people' to attack American interests. Munawar said Washington has always displayed hypocritical policies towards Pakistan. At one hand Washington terms future of Gen Musharraf as Pakistan's internal matter and supports democracy in the country, but on the other it secretly endeavors to continue Gen Musharraf in president's House and taking all possible measures in this regard including hurling threats to invade Pakistan despite that Democracy has established in the country.

Munawar asked Pakistani rulers to display courageous response to American threats and stick to their stance of reviewing Musharraf's policies on War against Terror and to make all decisions in the parliament in this regard. He reminded the rulers that if they displayed courage the people of Pakistan will fully back them, and no power on earth could harm a government backed by power of people.

 
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