LAHORE, Feb 9: Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Syed Munawar Hasan has castigated the claims of top American official indicating the presence of Al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders at Pakistani border areas near Quetta, and termed it a conspiracy to find excuses to attack Pakistan.

In a statement on Saturday, Munawar Hasan said Americans have a habit of first weave a web of conspiracies against a country through fabricated accusations and then shamelessly attack on the basis of those accusations. He said in case of Afghanistan and Iraq, Americans had leveled accusations of presence of Osama Bin Laden and Weapons of Mass Destructions respectively, before attacking those countries. However, after destroying both the countries and killing millions of civilians, they more shamefully admitted that their accusations were blatant lies.

He said Washington has been issuing baseless statements about presence of Osama and Mulla Omar in Pakistani territory only to attack and control our nuclear assets. Munawar also condemned the resolution in US senate conditioning Pakistan's aid to democracy and steps against terrorism, terming it hypocritical. He said America has never sincerely backed nor wanted democracy in Pakistan and instead always backed military dictators like Gen Musharraf. He said American Senate resolution is an open interference in Pakistan's internal affairs and Islamabad must protest against it strongly.

 
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