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Good article in The Globe and Mail damning Pakistan and
Mushrraf on his Canada visit. Not many western media agencies write so
explicitly “Pervez Musharraf leads a terrorist state”. In fact, the western
media and international community has caressed this guy and his rogue state
for decades.
This article also underlines the need to shun the double standards by the
West “This is a critical time in which the civilized world, if it is to win
the war or terrorism, needs to be honest and realistic in identifying and
confronting the enemy.” They are realizing this probably because the Canadian
lives are at the stake this time.
You can compliment the Publication and the author at:
Letters@GlobeAndMail.ca
Ottawa's unwelcome visitor
Pervez Musharraf leads a terrorist state, says DAVID
VAN PRAAGH. We forget that at our soldiers' peril
Today, Canada has the distinction of welcoming the leader of what, by any
fair reading of mounting evidence, is a state supporting terrorism. That is
disturbing to say the least. But Canadians may soon be among the victims of
this terrorism.
Canada is not alone in playing host to President Pervez Musharraf of
Pakistan. General Musharraf also will visit the United Nations, where
Pakistan is a member of the Security Council, and he will address the UN
General Assembly. He has been an honoured guest of President George W. Bush
in the United States.
This is a critical time in which the civilized world, if it is to win the war
or terrorism, needs to be honest and realistic in identifying and confronting
the enemy. Pakistan presents a major peril, not only because it supports
terrorism on two fronts. It is also a nuclear-weapons state that has
illegally exported nuclear technology to North Korea and neighbouring Iran.
Astonishingly, it nevertheless poses, and is accepted, as an ally of the
forces fighting terrorism.
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The best thing that Prime Minister Jean Chrétien
can do is inform Gen. Musharraf that Canada has an important stake in what
happens in Afghanistan and in the war against terrorism in general.
Considering the imminent dangers, it would be better if he did this publicly
as well as privately. The worst thing Mr. Chrétien can do is accept an
expected Musharraf lecture about Western mistreatment of Muslims, and leave
the impression that Pakistan does not present a big problem. That is probably
more likely, and it would make a bad situation worse.
The entire report can be read
Ottawa's unwelcome visitor
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