Pervez Musharraf says Barack Obama is being 'arrogant'

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Thomas Kurien

28 May, 2011

Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's former President, has said that US President Barack Obama's statement that he will authorize another Osama-like special operations strike in Pakistan if necessary is 'arrogant'.

THE FORMER president made this comment while being interviewed by CNN. The general was reacting to Obama’s comments made to a British television channel in which Obama had said that he will again authorize a Navy Seal type of an attack to take on Al Qaida terrorists if found on Pakistani soil.

But Musharraf said that such a statement and raid amounts to an "act of war." "Certainly no country has a right to intrude into any other country. If technically or legally you see it, it's an act of war.”

"I think such arrogance should not be shown publicly to the world," said Musharraf. "I think it is arrogance that: 'We don't care. We don't care for your national opinion. We don't care for your people. We will come in and do the same thing. This is arrogance’."

He also maintained that the Navy SEAL operation to take out the Al Qaeda leader on May 2 was "absolutely illegal." Musharraf admitted that the fact that Pakistani intelligence did not know about Bin Laden’s location was a "terrible mishap, a terrible failure".

Ever since the killing of Osama Bin Laden in Abbotabad, there has been a political backlash - including a massive reaction by terrorists holed out in the northern part of the country. Angry against Pakistan to allow the US to kill the Al Qaida leader, there have been multiple bomb blasts carried out by suspected Al Qaida terrorists aided by local Islamic terror organizations.

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COMMENTS (1)

Mushy, aka Pervez Musharraf, should go home to his country and answer for all the crimes he had committed, including attack on Benazir. May he get full justice in his homeland. What the heck is he doing in UK?