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09ISLAMABAD260 2009-02-06 11:27 2011-08-26 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Islamabad
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UNCLAS ISLAMABAD 000260 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
SUBJECT:  PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 06, 2009 
 
Summary:  All newspapers ran as their lead story reports on a "bomb 
blast that killed 30 (Shiite) mourners in Dera Ghazi Khan (a 
southern city of Punjab)."  Newspapers also front-paged report that 
"polling for the Senate's 50 vacant seats will be held on March 4 
2009."  Former President Musharraf's statement that the "new 
American Administration has lost trust in political leaders of 
Pakistan" made during a BBC interview received prominent coverage in 
newspapers.  Several major newspapers highlighted reports that a 
"six-member team of the FBI investigators arrived in Quetta to probe 
the kidnapping of a top American UN official." 
 
Most major dailies ran editorials on a variety of subjects including 
the setting up of the UN probe commission on Benazir assassination 
case, the Kashmir solidarity Day, and the deteriorating security 
situation of Swat valley.  Commenting on the UN's decision to form 
the probe commission, Lahore-based liberal daily, "Daily Times," 
noted that "it has allowed an international investigative instrument 
into the sovereign domain of a state on the government's own 
request."  The second largest Urdu daily, "Nawa-i-Waqt," expressed 
skepticism regarding "the need of establishing the commission 
spending a huge sum of money from the exchequer of a poor country 
when the UN Commission is unlikely to bring the murderers to 
justice"  Whereas, another English language daily, "The Post," 
articulated reservations that "given the way things were allegedly 
hushed up after Benazir's tragic killing, it would be a daunting 
task for investigators to be wary of the leads from the sections 
trying to bury this tragedy."  End Summary. 
 
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News Stories 
----------------- 
 
"30 Die As Terrorism Rears Its Head In D.G. Khan" "The News" 
(02/06) 
 
"At least 30 (Shitte) mourners were killed and more than 20 others 
sustained injuries in Muslim Town, Dera Ghazi Khan, when a powerful 
bomb planted near an Imambargah went off on Thursday evening." 
 
"Senate Polls On March 4" "The News" (02/06) 
 
"Polling for the Senate's 50 vacant seats will be held on March 4, 
as the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) issued the election 
schedule in Islamabad on Thursday." 
 
"U.S. Loses Trust In Pak Leaders: Musharraf" "The News," "The 
Nation," "Daily Time" (02/06) 
 
"Former President General (R) Pervez Musharraf has said that new 
American administration has lost trust in political leaders of 
Pakistan. He said the U.S. government has severe reservations about 
the Pakistani leaders.  Talking to the BBC at his residence, the 
former President said that political leaders were unsuccessful in 
creating mutual trust with the new American administration." 
 
"Six-Member FBI Team In Quetta For Kidnapping Probe" "Dawn" (02/06) 
 
"A six-member team of U.S. investigators arrived in Quetta on 
Thursday to probe the kidnapping of a top UN official, local police 
and security officials said.  Asked about the reported FBI 
involvement, the U.S. Embassy declined to speak on the subject.  'I 
cannot comment,' spokesman Lou Fintor told AFP in Islamabad.  'We 
are cooperating with UN and Pakistani authorities to determine the 
facts,' he added." 
 
"Arrival Of U.S. Investigation Team In Quetta Denied" "The News" 
(02/06) 
 
"The Balochistan police strongly denied late on Thursday the report 
telecast in a private television channel about the arrival of 
American investigation team in Quetta for probing into the abduction 
of provincial UNHCR chief John Solecki, a provincial police 
spokesman said." 
 
"Troops Rewriting History In Terror War; Over 1,450 Personnel 
Martyred, 3,500 Seriously Wounded" "The News" (02/06) 
 
"So far, over 1,450 officers and men had embraced Shahadat and over 
3,500 seriously wounded.  This is an unprecedented contribution. 
Pakistan Army has suffered more than the combined casualties of 37 
nations operating in Afghanistan." 
 
"TTP Threatens To Intensify Attacks On NATO Supplies, Govt. 
Installations" "The News" (02/06) 
 
"The banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Thursday threatened 
to intensify attacks on the government installations and NATO 
supplies if the military operations in Swat and the tribal areas 
were not stopped, a spokesman for the banned TTP, Maulvi Omar, made 
a phone call to 'The News.'" 
 
"Militants In Swat Expanding Network" "The Nation" (02/06) 
 
"The militants led by Maulana Fazlullah of Swat chapter's 
Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), also known as Radio Mullah, are 
spreading militancy to other cities and town near Swat valley, an 
official of the security forces and local inhabitants of Swat told 
'The Nation' on Thursday." 
 
"Two More Schools Blown Up In Swat" "The News" (02/06) 
 
"Unidentified armed men shot dead three women of a family and 
kidnapped the male members, while suspected militants blew up two 
more schools and the house of a police constable in Swat Valley on 
Thursday." 
 
"Key U.S. Lawmaker Confident Of RoZs Progress" "Daily Times" 
(02/06) 
 
"United States Congressman Chris Van Hollen, the Chief proponent of 
legislation on Reconstruction Opportunity Zones (RoZs), has pledged 
to step up efforts towards passage of the preferential trade 
initiative that would allow duty-free export of products from 
designated areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan to the American 
markets. The lawmaker, who last week visited Pakistan and 
Afghanistan as part of a congressional delegation, said in a 
conference call with reporters that the creation of economic 
opportunities for local people in the impoverished areas in both 
countries would greatly aid the struggle against Al Qaeda." 
 
"U.S. Plan To Arm Militias In Afghanistan" "The Nation" (02/06) 
 
"A U.S.-backed plan to create militias and give them guns to fight 
the Taliban is drawing criticism from local authorities in areas 
where the first units are being rolled out, raising questions as to 
whether the effort can succeed in Afghanistan....  One skeptical 
Afghan official said only criminals would join because most citizens 
wouldn't want to face the Taliban in combat." 
 
"UN Won't Try To Determine Who Killed Benazir" "Dawn" (02/06) 
 
"The mandate of the UN commission that will probe the 2007 slaying 
of PPP leader Benazir Bhutto will not exceed six months and will not 
extend to conducting a criminal investigation, according to a UN 
letter released on Thursday....  'The duty of determining criminal 
responsibility of the perpetrators of the assassination would remain 
with the Pakistani authorities,' the letter said." 
 
"New Delhi's Allegations Against ISI Rejected" "Dawn" (02/06) 
 
"Pakistan on Thursday rejected Indian allegations that the country's 
premier intelligence agency - the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) 
- was linked to the Mumbai attacks and said such statements were not 
helpful for a probe into the killings." 
 
"India Says ISI Linked To Mumbai Attack Culprits" "The News" 
(02/06) 
 
"Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon has said the 
Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was linked to planners behind the 
Mumbai attacks, the first time the Indian government has directly 
blamed the organization over November's raids.  'The perpetrators 
planned, trained and launched their attacks from Pakistan, and the 
organizers were and remain clients and creation of the ISI,' Menon 
said in a speech in Paris on Wednesday." 
 
"India Keep Heat On Pakistan" "Dawn" (02/06) 
 
"In a flurry of statements ahead of Mr. Richard Holbrooke's visit to 
South Asia next week, Indian officials have kept the heat on 
Pakistan as an epicenter of global terrorism, signaled New Delhi's 
continued interest in joining international alliances to curb the 
menace, and have deftly succeeded in keeping the Kashmir issue out 
of the purview of the U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan and 
Pakistan." 
 
"Kashmir Solidarity Day Marked" "The Nation" (02/06) 
 
"Kashmir Solidarity Day was observed throughout the world including 
Pakistan on Thursday with a pledge to continue diplomatic, moral and 
political support to the just cause of the Kashmiris fighting Indian 
oppression." 
 
--------------------- 
Editorials/Op-eds 
--------------------- 
 
"UN Commission On BB's Assassination," an editorial in the 
Lahore-based liberal English language daily "Daily Times" (cir. 
10,000) (02/06) 
 
"The UN, by taking the decision to go ahead with the setting up of 
the Commission, has broken new ground: it has allowed an 
international investigative instrument into the sovereign domain of 
a state on the government's own request.  For most analysts the 
question that arose was: if Pakistan is sovereign, why should the UN 
come and find out who murdered a former prime minister?  Will not 
such a probe prove that Pakistan's institutions are not under 
sovereign control and therefore Pakistan cannot do its own 
investigation without the government appearing to be partisan in the 
eyes of a divided national polity?" 
 
"Announcement Of UN Probe," an editorial note in the second-largest, 
center-right nationalist Urdu daily "Nawa-i-Waqt" (cir. 125,000) 
(02/06) 
 
".... The question is could assassin be punished on the basis of the 
commission's report?  A formal First Information Report (FIR) was 
not registered after the murder of Benazir Bhutto.  How could a 
court try someone without having the FIR?  What was the need of 
establishing the commission spending a huge sum of money from the 
exchequer of a poor country when UN Commission is unlikely to bring 
the murderers to justice?" 
 
"UN Probe," an editorial in the Lahore-based liberal English daily 
"The Post" (cir. 5,000) (02/06) 
 
"It would be a daunting task for investigators to be wary of the 
leads from the sections trying to bury this tragedy.....  It is 
ironic that the tragic death of Pakistan's illustrious leader faces 
the danger of going into oblivion....  It is no hoped that the real 
culprits behind the murder of Benazir Bhutto will be exposed and 
brought to book." 
 
"Benazir Bhutto's Assassination And UN Commission To Investigate 
It," an editorial in the center-right Urdu daily "Pakistan" (cir. 
10,000) (02/06) 
 
"We pray that the commission really presents its report in six 
months time and the government announces the contents of the report 
the commission is supposed to submit.  This will save the people of 
Pakistan from the agonizing wait that Lebanon people are undergoing 
as UN hasn't filed the report of Rafiq Hariri's murder even after 
four years of investigation." 
 
"Benazir Bhutto Murder Case: Establishment Of Three-Member UN Probe 
Commission," an editorial in liberal Urdu daily "Express" (cir. 
25,000) (02/06) 
 
"President Zardari and his government are being criticized for not 
being serious in investigating Benazir's assassination. Expressing 
views on his wife's first death anniversary, President Zardari had 
said that he knows Benazir's killers but cannot name them yet.  Why 
he is not able to name the killers even when he knows them? However, 
questions will still be asked as to why PPP cannot probe the killing 
through the domestic intelligence agencies even though it is in 
power." 
 
"Good Decision To Establish Investigation Commission," an editorial 
in the Lahore-based populist center-right Urdu daily "Khabrain" 
(cir. 50,000) (02/06) 
 
"Benazir's killing was not the first political assassination in 
Pakistan. Several important Pakistanis, including the first PM 
Liaqat Ali Khan and President Ziaul Haq, died of unnatural causes, 
but the killers were never revealed.  This trend encouraged 
miscreants and international [intelligence] agencies, and they got 
an open playing field in Pakistan. One major reason why these 
killers were not unveiled is Pakistan's imbalanced foreign policy; 
based on which our rulers supported the U.S. more than was 
necessary, while in return we only got  a cold shoulder, and 
conspiracies." 
 
"UN Murder Probe," an editorial in the centrist national English 
daily "The News" (cir. 55,000) (02/06) 
 
"... The reality is that such an investigation is unlikely to solve 
very much at all....  The fact too is that the answers to Ms. 
Bhutto's meticulously planned killing almost certainly lie within 
Pakistan." 
 
"Independent International Commission To Investigate Benazir's 
Assassination," an editorial in Hyderabad based independent and 
liberal daily "Kawish" (Cir. 105,000) (02/06) 
 
"In Pakistan investigations of high profile assassinations have 
increased ambiguities rather than help resolve the mysteries. The 
government and the UN took too much time to set up a commission to 
investigate the Benazir's assassination case.  More than one year 
has passed and there is hardly any evidence left." 
 
"UN announces Investigation Commission," an editorial in the 
Karachi-based right-wing pro-Jamaat-e-Islami Urdu daily "Jasarat" 
(cir. 3,000) (02/06) 
 
"UN is not an investigation agency, therefore is it appropriate to 
assign this task to UN? Benazir returned to Pakistan after 
intervention from the U.S. and U.K. after brokering a deal with the 
then President Musharraf, but she ultimately paid price for 
indulging in this game." 
 
"Kashmir Is Biggest Dispute In South Asia: Ban Ki-Moon Should 
Perform His International Obligation Properly," an editorial in the 
second-largest, center-right nationalist Urdu daily "Nawa-i-Waqt" 
(cir. 125,000) (02/06) 
 
"The sentiments expressed by Kashmiris worldwide on February 5 must 
have reached UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon.  Now he should 
fulfill his international responsibilities in keeping with 
principles of justice and add a new chapter in the world history. 
However, he has disappointed Pakistanis by stating in Islamabad that 
the issue be resolved through bilateral talks and UN will also 
cooperate in this respect." 
 
"Kashmir Issue And Responsibility Of International Community," an 
editorial in the leading mass circulation centrist Urdu daily "Jang" 
(cir. 300,000) (02/06) 
 
"If the UN could send its troops to East Timor following a brief 
uprising, held a referendum to find out the aspirations of the 
minority, and could offer an opportunity to establish their separate 
homeland, then what is the good reason of depriving the people of 
Kashmir from their right of self-determination even after the 
struggle of more than 50 years?" 
 
"UN Chief In Pakistan," an editorial in the Karachi-based 
center-left independent national English daily "Dawn" (cir. 55,000) 
(02/06) 
 
"Following the Mumbai attacks and a new U.S. administration that has 
flirted with the idea of nudging along a Kashmir settlement, Mr. Ban 
was quite expectedly asked about terrorism and South Asia's 
flashpoint....  This will have disappointed both countries: India 
because it is hoping for more pressure from the UN to make Pakistan 
act on the Mumbai dossier; Pakistan because it is hoping to rope in 
the international community to convince India to work on a Kashmir 
settlement." 
 
"Ban Needs To Do More," an editorial in the Islamabad-based rightist 
English daily "Pakistan Observer" (cir. 5,000) (02/06) 
 
"The visit of the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to the South 
Asian region came at a very critical juncture when the war on terror 
was at its peak resulting into killing of innocent people, 
sovereignty of a UN member state was being violated by U.S. drone 
attacks, and above all Pakistan nation with one voice was drawing 
attention of the world community towards unresolved issue of Jammu 
and Kashmir threatening peace and security of the region.... 
However, it is regrettable that Mr. Ban Ki-Moon's attitude towards 
most of these burning issues was lackluster confirming the widely 
held belief that the UN was unable to play any meaningful role in 
any respect without a clear nod from the United States." 
 
"Obama's Concerns," an editorial in the Karachi-based center-left 
independent national English daily "Dawn" (cir. 55,000) (02/06) 
 
"The change in the White House has made no difference to 
Washington's Fata policy, and drones often miss the target and cause 
collateral damage.  While Obama's concerns about Pakistan's 
stability need to be welcomed, his administration - like the 
previous one - has yet to realize the negative consequences of 
American attacks in FATA.  These violations of Pakistan's 
sovereignty create sympathy for the militants, strengthen the 
pro-Taliban lobby in the country." 
 
"Madness In The Mountains," an editorial in the centrist national 
English daily "The News" (cir. 55,000) (02/06) 
 
"The men of Maulana Fazlullah have run amuck.  There can be no doubt 
about this.  It is absurd that some in high places continue to 
defend them.  Force is needed to halt them before they inflict still 
greater damage.  The stories emerging from Swat speak of terrorized 
people who feel helpless in the face of the brutality unleashed on 
them." 
 
"No More Collateral Damage, Please," an editorial in the country's 
premier business newspaper, "Business Recorder" (cir. 25,000) 
(02/06) 
 
"The Provincial Government's contribution to resolve the Swat 
imbroglio is quite dismal....  Military operation is going apace 
with extensive collateral damage that has begun taking its toll. 
The public support for the military operation is diminishing.... 
Every day that passes brings nothing but more killings and 
stepped-up exodus of worried non-combatants.  Let there be a 
cease-fire. Militants are not asking for a separate state; theirs is 
an ideological struggle which should be encountered with a superior 
ideology and stronger logic." 
 
"Causes of concerns," an op-ed by Nazir Naji in the leading mass 
circulation centrist Urdu daily "Jang" (cir. 300,000) (02/06) 
 
"The former Bush administration sought to establish a democratically 
elected government and stability in Afghanistan besides flushing out 
the terrorists.  To achieve this objective, it provided facilities 
and support to the Karzai administration, but the outcome of all 
this exercise was quite contrary.  The Karzai administration got 
caught up in corruption instead of winning the trust of the Afghan 
people, and a large number of Afghan officials became partners with 
the drug mafia.  Even a sibling of President Karzai is now 
identified as a drug baron.  In contrast, the Obama administration 
resorted to a shortcut rather than improving the state of affairs. 
And this approach is practically the same as the classic 
imperialistic strategy.  According to this strategy, the U.S. 
administration will prefer to act against the terrorists rather 
establishing and strengthening a democratic government there. 
Obviously this strategy will cause more military operations, and 
more destruction in the coming days." 
Patterson