Wednesday, March 12, 2003

Pakistan Accused of Staging Khalid Arrest, including faked video and other deceptions
More details on the 'arrest' of Khalid, which many people in Pakistan are convinced did not occur on the the day or in the place stated.

'[Former ISI chief] Gul said news of the arrest appeared to have been leaked at a critical time, just as Pakistan was facing huge U.S. pressure to support a U.N. Security Council vote authorizing war on Iraq. On Monday night, a senior ruling party official told Reuters the government, under massive domestic pressure to oppose war on a fellow Muslim state, had decided to abstain in the vote, news that shocked British and American diplomats in Islamabad.'

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