Post by peterd on Nov 2, 2012 9:41:01 GMT -8
Former Pakistani Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz: Attack On Malala Yousafzai 'May Be The Handiwork Of American Agents'; Urdu Daily Alleges American Conspiracy Behind Malala's Anti-Taliban Diaries
In a recent interview, former Pakistani interior minister Lt.-Gen. (retired) Hamid Nawaz argued that the October 9, 2012 Taliban attack on 14-year-old Pakistani education and women's rights activist Malala Yousafzai may have been carried out by American agents like Raymond Davis, the CIA agent who was held in Pakistan for killing two Pakistani nationals in Lahore and later released.
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed responsibility for the attack on Malala Yousafzai, accusing her of advancing Western interests in Pakistan after she opposed the Taliban's total ban on girls' education in early 2009 in a series of anonymous online diaries. The diaries, which she wrote for the BBC's Urdu language service and were published in early 2009, described how the Taliban was enforcing Islamic shari'a rule in Swat district. She is now recovering at a hospital in Britain.
Lt.-Gen. (retired) Hamid Nawaz's interview was published October 19, 2012 by the Urdu-language daily Roznama Ummat, in a report titled "American Agents Like Raymond Davis Could Be Involved In The Attack On Malala." In it, Hamid Nawaz also argues against a military operation on the Taliban and Al-Qaeda hideouts in Pakistan's North Waziristan district.
www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/6787.htm
In a recent interview, former Pakistani interior minister Lt.-Gen. (retired) Hamid Nawaz argued that the October 9, 2012 Taliban attack on 14-year-old Pakistani education and women's rights activist Malala Yousafzai may have been carried out by American agents like Raymond Davis, the CIA agent who was held in Pakistan for killing two Pakistani nationals in Lahore and later released.
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed responsibility for the attack on Malala Yousafzai, accusing her of advancing Western interests in Pakistan after she opposed the Taliban's total ban on girls' education in early 2009 in a series of anonymous online diaries. The diaries, which she wrote for the BBC's Urdu language service and were published in early 2009, described how the Taliban was enforcing Islamic shari'a rule in Swat district. She is now recovering at a hospital in Britain.
Lt.-Gen. (retired) Hamid Nawaz's interview was published October 19, 2012 by the Urdu-language daily Roznama Ummat, in a report titled "American Agents Like Raymond Davis Could Be Involved In The Attack On Malala." In it, Hamid Nawaz also argues against a military operation on the Taliban and Al-Qaeda hideouts in Pakistan's North Waziristan district.
www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/6787.htm