Posted on 05/07/2011 9:38:43 AM PDT by EBH
Prominent Pakistani lawmakers called for President Asif Ali Zardari and other senior government officials to resign Saturday after the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden and embarrassed the nation.
The demands followed a week in which countless questions swirled about how much the Pakistani government knew about bin Laden's hiding place and why the military was powerless to prevent U.S. commandos from helicoptering into the country to kill the al-Qaida chief.
Pakistani officials have said they were totally in the dark, a hard thing for many Pakistanis to believe since bin Laden was holed up in Abbottabad, an army town only two and a half hours' drive from the capital, Islamabad.
Former Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, who is now a lawmaker for the ruling Pakistan People's Party, fixed the blame squarely on Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani likely motivated in part by past conflict with the two men.
"This is a great violation of our sovereignty, but it is for the president and prime minister to resign and no one else," Qureshi told reporters in the central Pakistani city of Lahore.
Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, the main opposition leader in parliament, said the country's powerful army and intelligence chiefs should also step down. They are believed to control the real levers of power in Pakistan.
"All from top to bottom who are responsible should take responsibility, and I believe that after such a big tragedy, they should resign," Khan told reporters in Lahore. "This is a call coming from every street of Pakistan."
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Yep, Valerie Jarret's gotta go...
Revisiting thread and reading pak/lahore blogs this morning. Nothing new to post.
From FReeper musarratullah this morning...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2716773/posts?page=1
Would India prefer to have a version of Somalia on their border? You can't "erase" Pakistan without erasing a couple hundred million Pakistanis, and I doubt the rest of the world would be willing to stomach allowing India to do that.
They were looking for the CIA agents who were doing "feet on the ground" monitoring of the Osama compound before the raid.
The Paki government SHOULD fall over this.
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