'US must use 'lie detector' on 'terrorist general' Pasha to locate Qaeda links'

Washington, May 7(ANI): The United States should arrest Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lieutenant General Ahmad Shuja Pasha and Pakistan's Ambassador to Washington, Husain Haqqani, and use polygraph test on both to determine their role in shielding Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, the American Friends of Balochistan (AFB) has said. The Al Qaeda founder, who had evaded capture for a decade, was killed in a top secret operation involving a small team of US Special Forces in Abbottabad city, located 50 kilometres northeast of Islamabad and 150 kilometres east of Peshawar. Expressing anguish over Pasha's ongoing visit to Washington to explain Pakistan's position on the presence of Bin Laden in the country before he was killed in a US operation on May 2, the AFB asked American law enforcement agencies to arrest him for questioning his role in protecting the world' most wanted terrorist. "The man who had destroyed millions of lives all over the world was shielded by none else but Pakistan's military and the Inter-Services Intelligence. The ISI is a terrorist outfit and there should be no room for diplomacy with terrorists," Examiner.com quoted leading AFB members, Malik Baloch and Zahid Mir, as saying in a joint statement. "Thousands of people who died in the 911 attacks and across the world will never forgive any US political leadership who would fail to bring the ISI to justice," the statement added. The AFB activists called upon US Marshals to arrest General Pasha, saying: "If this terrorist general from Pakistan is not arrested, it would be a grave travesty of justice," adding that the "Pakistan army is al Qaeda in uniform." They said that just like General Pasha, Pakistani envoy Haqqani, who is also called the man with a golden tongue, cannot be trusted. "Haqqani is spineless and was a key leader of the Islami Jamiat Tulaba, the student wing of the Muslim Brotherhood in Pakistan for nearly a decade. He used to terrorize secular, liberal students at Pakistan's largest University of Karachi," the AFB activists alleged. Had Pakistan been sincere with the US in the war on terror, they said, Islamabad would have arrested international terrorists Mullah Omar, Ayman al Zwahiri, Dawood Ebrahim and General Hamid Gul a long time ago. The two AFB leaders said that the use of polygraph is a must if the US wants to talk with Pasha and Haqqani, adding: "Nothing is more important than saving American lives." (ANI)