"Pakistan aide resigns after criticizing army" by Associated Press | September 27, 2010
SLAMABAD — Pakistan’s federal minister for defense production resigned after being summoned by the prime minister to explain comments he made criticizing the army and accusing it of killing prominent politicians, officials said yesterday.
Governments assassinating people?
Surely you jest!
Abdul Qayyum Khan Jatoi accused the army of killing several high-profile Pakistani figures, including ethnic Baluch tribal leader Nawab Akbar Bugti and the former prime minister, Benazir Bhutto.
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Throwing More Dirt on Bhutto's Grave
CUI BONO?
“We provided the army with uniforms and boots not so that they kill their own fellow countrymen,’’ said Jatoi during a televised press conference Saturday night in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani later summoned Jatoi to explain his comments. He told reporters yesterday that the minister made his statements “in his personal capacity, and within five or six hours he resigned.’’
Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira told local TV that Jatoi’s comments were “against our policies.’’
The army is widely considered the most powerful institution in Pakistan and it is risky for officials to criticize it. The military has carried out three coups against civilian governments in Pakistan and has ruled the country for much of its 63-year history.
Bugti, the Baluch tribal leader, was killed in an August 2006 military operation. The 79-year-old’s remote cave hide-out collapsed in an unexplained explosion while security forces were searching for tribal insurgents who fight for a larger share of natural resources extracted from impoverished Baluchistan.
Yeah, Baluchistan has NOTHING TO DO with TERRORISTS!
They are simply TIRED off being RIPPED OFF and EXPLOITED!
The exact details of Bugti’s death are disputed.
Translation: the government hunted him down and killed him.
Bhutto was assassinated in December 2007 after speaking at an election rally in a garrison city just outside Islamabad. The military-led government at the time blamed the killing on the Pakistani Taliban, which stages attacks throughout the country from their sanctuary in the tribal areas near the Afghan border.
Also see: Pakistan's JFK
I'm not saying she like him; however, the destruction of evidence in their murders is comparable.
Btw, did you know Benazir spilled the beans about bin Laden?
Think that might have had something to do with her death?
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