By Staff Reporter
KARACHI: Chairman, Sindh National Front, Mumtaz Ali Bhutto has criticized the presence of NATO forces at the Pakistan border terming it an attack on the sovereignty of the country. “The activities of NATO forces inside the Pakistan territory had become a routine and now its presence at our borders mean that they want to occupy FATA and Pakhtoonkhawah areas,” he said in a statement on Wednesday.
SNF chief also referred to a statement of Prime Minister regarding presence of foreign terrorists in tribal areas and said that the rulers were compelled to make ‘meaningless complaints.’
Mumtaz Bhutto described the frequent visits of American Secretary of state, Deputy Secretary of State and the military generals to Pakistan and holding meetings with President, Prime Minister, Generals and other military officials of medium rank as the violation of basic principles of protocol and diplomacy.
“It also indicates as if Pakistan has become a State of USA,” he contended.
“It needs a capable leadership to safeguard the country, its independence and the sovereignty, which alas it lacks,” he viewed. Mumtaz Bhutto went on to say that the country was already in the grip of all kinds of evils domestically and there seems no body to steer it out, as the present rulers, who in fact were of the district level cadre, do not take any concrete step except forming committees. According to SNF chief, merely making complaints was a futile practice, as the rulers would not pay any heed to them.