What A Buddy You Have, Mr President

The Islamic world saw widespread protests and violent demonstrations on the issue of the Danish cartoons. While the protest movement has subsided in the rest of the world, it is showing no signs of subsiding in Pakistan. Do you know why?

B. Raman

Updated on: 2 March 2006 12:00 am

Wall Street Journal

Your buddy does not have any powers to send the killers of Daniel Pearl to the gallows, but he had all the powers in the world to dismiss his own elected Prime Minister, arrest him and have him convicted on a charge of hijacking under the Anti-Terrorism Act.

Your buddy helped bin Laden, al-Zawahiri and their jihadi hordes to escape from Tora Bora into Pakistan and is not taking any action to kill or capture bin Laden because he is afraid that if bin Laden is eliminated his (Musharrasf's) importance in your eyes could diminish.

Your buddy gave sanctuary to Mulla Mohammad Omar and his Taliban hordes in Pakistan from where they are staging a spectacular come-back in Afghanistan.

Your buddy has closed his eyes to the international jihadi terrorists setting up a liberated zone in his Waziristan region. Do you know what is bin Laden today? He is the Amir of the International Islamic Caliphate with the provisional capital in Waziristan.

Your buddy has covered up his own involvement in the supply of military nuclear material by A. Q. Khan to Libya, Iran and North Korea and protected him by repeatedly refusing to hand him over to the International Atomic Energy Agency for interrogation by independent investigators.

Your buddy's buddy, Osama bin Laden, has recently issued a message warning of another 9/11 in the US homeland. Where from is it being planned? From your buddy's homeland.

Mr. President, the Islamicworld saw widespread protests and violent demonstrations on the issue of theDanish cartoons. While the protest movement has subsided in the rest of theworld, it is showing no signs of subsiding in Pakistan.

Do you know why?

Your buddy is himself instigating the fundamentalists and the jihadis to keep upthe demonstrations till your visit is over. He is hoping that this will help himto convince you how heroically he is fighting against them to help the US atgreat risk to himself.

What a buddy you have, Mr. President! What a buddy!

With very warm regards, Sir.

Yours sincerely,

B. Raman, Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat. Govt. of India,and, Director, Institute for Topical Studies, Chennai, India.