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[ 14-04-2003 ]
Category
[ International Relations ]
sub-Categoy
[ Pakistan ]
      [http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2003/04/14/64016-ap.html

      Pakistani ruling party chief says U.S. will disintegrate, criticizes Iraq war
      By MUNIR AHMAD
      Mon, April 14, 2003

      ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - The leader of Pakistan's ruling party said the Iraq war is dividing the world into two blocs and predicted America would soon be "reduced to pieces."

      Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, chief of the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid-e-Azam, made the comments Sunday in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir. Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali is a member of the same party. The comments were sure to be an embarrassment for the government, which is an important ally of the United States in the war on terror. The government has generally taken a pro-Washington stance. Earlier this month, America wrote off $1 billion US of Pakistan's bilateral debt.

      "I don't accept that America is a super power," Hussain said at Native University in Mirpur, 100 kilometres southeast of the capital, Islamabad. "The only super power is God Almighty."

      Hussain went on to say that the world "is now dividing into two blocs. France, Germany, China and Muslim countries are joining one bloc" and America and its allies are in the other.

      He warned that, "Now the day is not far away when America will be reduced to pieces."

      Foreign Ministry spokesman Aziz Ahmad Khan refused to comment on Hussain's remarks, as did other Pakistani government officials.

      Hussain also railed against the U.S. invasion of Iraq, dismissing the coalition's taking of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, and the disintegration of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's regime.

      "They had planned to capture Iraq in two days," Hussain said. Instead coalition forces could not achieve the target and "are still roaming in the deserts in Iraq."

      With the grace of God, Iraqis will ultimately be victorious, he said.

      Pakistan has said it opposed military action in Iraq, but it has also blamed Saddam Hussein for failing to disarm.


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