Thursday, November 25, 2010

A New York court has issued summons to Maj Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha, Director General of the ISI since September 2008 and his predecessor Naddem Taj who was Director General 2007-2008, as well as Hafiz Saeed and Zakiur Rahman Lakhvi of the Lashkar-e-Taiba. This is in response to a case filed by relatives of Rabbi Gavriel Noah Holtzberg and his wife Rivka who were shot to death in the Mumbai attacks of 26/11. Pakistan has been taunting India with insulting demands for evidence and has even had the audacity to ask our investigating officers to give evidence before a Paki court. A US court will be more difficult to evade. A Texas court has just found previous Republican House majority Leader, Tom DeLay guilty of money laundering and conspiracy. He was known as ' The Hammer ' for his ability to persuade others to his point of view and was extremely powerful till his arrest in 2005. Bill Clinton had to appear before a court during the Monica Lewinsky scandal while still the President of the US. It will be interesting to see how Pakistan tries to wriggle out of this one. Clearly Pakistan cannot allow these scum to be questioned because that could lead to a lot of embarrassing disclosures involving the entire Paki government. That would in turn embarrass the US government as well and lead to questions about US aid to Pakistan. It will be impossible for the Pakis to play the old game of not knowing where the scum are hiding, as they have been doing with Osama bin Laden since 2001, because ISI chiefs do not hide in caves. At the very least the Pakis will waste vast sums of scarce dollars in lawyer fees. Any injury to the Pakis is of joy.

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