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minutest precision, from one marked comment on the ‘terror tags’ heaped by Pakistan border.
target to the next, from one end of the the Western Power on his father, and And if we were to focus on Latin
world to the next? Who is behind these the role played by that Super Power, he American countries, its best to hear
deadly tactics at unsettling the exist- had this to say — “The US being a super what the well-known Mexican writer
ence, the very basic survival of millions power,it considers it to be its right to and columnist Juan Miguel De Mora
in landlocked States? Who is killing impose embargoes or bomb and attack had to tell me during the course of
whom! Who is that big terrorist out to another country…” an interview whilst he was visiting
destroy us all! In fact, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan’s New Delhi several years back.When
grandson, Asfandyar Wali Khan, had I had queried about the USA he began
ver the last three decades I come up with this rather apt explana- by quoting two former Mexican presi-
have heard the successive tion to the growing turmoil in today’s dents — “Mexican president General
OPalestinian envoys detail world, more so in the Islamic world,“ If Porfirio Diaz had said way back
America backed Israeli intrusions you have two badmashes in a village (he was president till 1910) ‘Poor
into their territory. I recall
Palestinian envoy to India,
Dr Khaled Al — Sheikh speak
at the various forums and
platforms of the atrocities his
countrymen were subjected
to. And when Osama Musa
was posted in India as the
Palestinian envoy he spoke
along a broader perspective
as he was Commander of his
country’s Air Force when the
Oslo Agreement was signed
in 1994, and thereafter he was
appointed the Chairman of the
Regional Security Committee
which was meant to oversee
the implementation of the
Agreement on the Palestinian
side. And during the course of
a series of interviews with me,
Osama Musa had stated that
Israeli tanks are getting inside
Palestinian homes.
“The situation in Pales-
tine is so bad that it is Israel
which decides everything,
including the mass killings of
our children… And I can tell you that it’s okay, because the two will be busy Mexico so far from God and so close
without America’s support Israel is settling scores with each other. But to the US.’ Then another Mexican
zero. Israel cannot survive a single there will be chaos and confusion if President -Adolfo Lopez Mateos had
day if America didn’t support it…Fact there is only one badmash left! That’s said that the biggest problem faced by
is, there is no justice or civilization left the trouble in today’s world. There is Mexico is ‘the US.’ Together with that
in today’s changed world order.I have only one badmash left! …Religion was Mora came up with his own comments
been reduced to the status of a refugee used by Americans in Afghanistan to — “But in my opinion both Mexican
in my own land and there is nothing create their base, otherwise Afghan presidents were too diplomatic. Presi-
at all that I can do about it as America struggles had been based on national- dent’s Bush‘s democracy is like Stalin’s
-backed Israel controls our lives!” ism and not religion…Its a known fact and I have been writing in my columns
And in 2001, when during the that way back in early 90s, madrasas that Bush’s policies are a danger to
course of an interview, I had asked and other religious institutionshad humanity.”
Libya’s erstwhile ruler Colonel Muam- been set up by the CIA, under the so
mar Gaddafi’s son, Saif — EL Islam, to many camouflages, along the Afghan- LETTERS@TEHELKA.COM

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