Benazir backs NATO’s stay in Afghanistan
Bureau Report

KARACHI—Chairperson, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), Benazir Bhutto Tuesday said that NATO forces should stay in Afghanistan further for elimination of terrorism. The former prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, stated this while talking to media at Bilawal House here.
She said that the future of Pakistan was linked with Afghanistan and NATO forces should further stay in Afghanistan till terrorism was curbed in the neighbour state of Pakistan. She also called upon international community for striving to find out the conspiracy behind the blasts in PPP procession.
Benazir Bhutto also called for an independent and impartial Election Commission in Pakistan for next general elections and also to complete its members. She claimed that a comprehensive plan was available with PPP, which was capable to eliminate almost 50 percent terrorism from the country. Education development was also part of the plan of PPP, she added. She said that the election should not be cancelled due to Karachi blasts in PPP rally. Benazir also called for provision of full security to leaders of all political parties.
Pakistan Peoples Party has welcomed the statement by the United Nations Security Council strongly condemning Thursday’s bomb attacks on PPP rally in Karachi. In a statement Tuesday spokesperson of the Party former Senator Farhatullah Babar said that the unanimously adopted statement by the UNSC vindicated the Party’s position for an impartial inquiry that can only be insured only if forensic and technical experts from the international community wee also involved in it.
The UNSC on Monday condemned in “strongest terms” the bomb attacks on the rally of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto in Karachi and called upon the international community to “ensure that any measures taken to combat terrorism comply with all the obligations under the international law.” Reaffirming that terrorism in all its forms and manifestation constituted one of the most serious threats to international peace and security the UNSC statement underlined the need to bring “perpetrators, organizers, financers and sponsors of this reprehensible act of terrorism to justice.”
The spokesperson recalled that in the year 2001 the UN had adopted resolution calling for international cooperation in combating terrorism. He said that UN resolutions 1373 adopted in 2001 and 1624 adopted in 2005 placed obligations and responsibilities on member states to cooperate actively for brining to an end acts of terrorism. He said that the perpetrators, financers and sponsors of the October 18 terror could be brought to justice only if the government of Pakistan invited the international community to extend necessary technical assistance to expose them.