Once upon a time there was a man who was tall, slim and smart. He had a long, wizened face that the English so love. He spoke English better than his native tongues. He had great leadership and communications skills. He was educated in England and became a famous politician, though he saw many failures at the beginning of his political career. He was admired at home and abroad. He was a private man and frugal, to put it politely. He loved dogs. His financial honesty was beyond reproach. He was naturally bold and took risks. He played to win, not to avoid losing. He had tunnel vision and never said die. He had an unsuccessful marriage to a non-Muslim, divorced and the wife took the offspring to England. People called him all sorts of names.
 
I’m sure you’re thinking I’m talking of Imran Khan. No, I’m talking of a man whom his adoring people called ‘Great Leader’ Qaid e Azam Muhmmad Ali Jinnah because he helped them turn.

Pakistan seeks face-saving formula in NATO talks

Pakistan is unlikely to re-open supply routes to NATO troops in Afghanistan unless the United States offers a politically acceptable formula in talks on ending a six-month standoff on the issue, a Pakistani official said on Thursday.

The official said the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP)had to be politically savvy, taking into account widespread anti-American sentiment in the country ahead of general elections due by early next year.

"It is not fair for any country to expect any decisions that could be politically harmful ahead of elections," the official, who is familiar with the negotiations, told Reuters on condition of anonymity.

The United States has been pushing Pakistan to re-open supply routes to NATO forces in Afghanistan in difficult talks that show no signs of a breakthrough any time soon.

Pakistan closed the routes, seen as vital to the planned withdrawal of most foreign troops from Afghanistan before the end of 2014, in protest against last November's killing of 24 Pakistani soldiers in a NATO air attack along the Afghan border.

Higher transit fees are the most difficult issue in Pakistan's talks in the negotiations, said the official.

Pakistan was demanding a substantially higher fee than the current $250 per container or per fuel truck that crosses its borders and it was not clear when a deal was possible, he said, without elaborating. "It could be tomorrow or it could be in two months," said the official.

U.S. frustrations with Pakistan deepened on Wednesday after Pakistani authorities sentenced a doctor accused of helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden to 33 years in jail on charges of treason.

Shakil Afridi was accused of running a fake vaccination campaign, in which he collected DNA samples, that is believed to have helped the American intelligence agency track down bin Laden in a Pakistani town.

The al Qaeda leader was killed in a unilateral U.S. special forces raid in the town of Abbottabad in May last year that heavily damaged ties with Washington, a source of billions of dollars in aid.

Bin Laden's long presence in Pakistan -- he was believed to have stayed there for years -- despite the worldwide manhunt for him raised suspicions in Washington that Pakistani intelligence officials may have given him shelter.

Pakistani officials deny this and say an intelligence gap enabled bin Laden to live here undetected.

No one has yet been charged for helping the al Qaeda leader take refuge in Pakistan. A government commission tasked with investigating how he managed to evade capture by Pakistani authorities for so long is widely accused of being ineffective.

AMERICAN OUTRAGE OVER SENTENCING

U.S. officials and lawmakers said Afridi deserved only praise, not a 33-year jail sentence.

Two senior U.S. senators called the ruling "shocking and outrageous" and urged Islamabad to pardon and release the doctor immediately.

But a Pakistan foreign ministry spokesman said the United States should respect the court's decision.

"I think as far as the case of Mr. Afridi is concerned, it was in accordance with Pakistani laws and by the Pakistani courts, and we need to respect each other's legal processes," Moazzam Ali Khan told reporters.

Aside from the talks on NATO supply routes, Pakistan and the United States have been trying to patch up a serious of other differences in their ties since the raid that killed bin Laden, which humiliated Pakistan's powerful military.

Islamabad is sticking to demands for an American apology for the Pakistani soldiers killed in the air attack on the border, but progress has been made on the issue, said the Pakistani official.

"We need some sort of apology," he said.

Pakistan also wants an end to U.S. drone strikes on Islamist militants on its territory.

Attacks by unmanned drone aircraft, which U.S. officials say are highly effective against militants, fuel anti-American sentiment in Pakistan because they are seen as violations of sovereignty and inflict civilian casualties.

After conducting a review of ties with Washington last month, parliament called on the government to demand an end to drone strikes.

That, the official said, implies that Pakistan must itself expel foreign militants from its soil, including Uzbeks, Arabs and members of the Afghan Haqqani network, one of the most feared groups fighting U.S.-led NATO forces in Afghanistan.

Some Pakistani officials, and Haqqani leaders, have said the group no longer operates in Pakistan, contradicting U.S. assertions that it operates from sanctuaries in Pakistan's unruly North Waziristan tribal area near the Afghan border.

A U.S. drone strike on suspected Islamist militants in the area on Thursday killed 10 people, Pakistani intelligence officials said, an attack likely to raise tensions in the standoff with Washington over NATO supply routes.

The pilotless drone aircraft attacked a compound in a village in North Waziristan, a day after a similar attack killed four suspected militants in the same region.

"The drone fired two missiles at the compound. We believe it was being used by militants," one of the Pakistani officials said.

The United States has been urging Pakistan to mount an offensive in North Waziristan to pursue Haqqani militants.

Pakistan has said its military is stretched fighting homegrown Taliban militants, and some analysts doubt the army could defeat the group.

A full-fledged assault in North Waziristan looks more unlikely than ever, as a result of troubled ties between Washington and Islamabad, and Pakistan's PPP-led government may want to put on a brave face in the supply route talks.

The administration is already deeply unpopular, with public frustrations growing over chronic power cuts, widespread poverty, unemployment and official corruption.

Now, Yahoo! Inc. launches own browser 'Axis'

American web giant Yahoo has launched a web browser called Axis, in a bid to define the company and its goals

The announcement was made in the US last night, as the firm, which has recently lost its chief executive, battles to remain relevant and keep its users

"Our search strategy is predicated on two core beliefs, one, that people want answers, not links and two, that consumer-facing search is ripe for innovative disruption," said Shashi Seth, Senior Vice President, Connections, Yahoo! Inc

According to The Telegraph, the browser, which faces stiff competition from Google's Chrome, Firefox and Microsoft's Internet Explorer, has no search result pages. Instead, most of the time, users will receive their search results as a horizontal display of web page thumbnails. Or users will receive text boxes with results in them

The design and functionality has been well received by some technology pundits who have used it till now

"Axis does nonetheless have a much better way of getting you from searching to visiting a Web page. The browser works well. This is an aggressive product for the struggling Yahoo to launch out of its search group... The Axis browser may not conquer the world, but it is a very strong mobile product with an important new design concept for search," Rafe Needleman, editor-at-large at technology site Cnet, was reported, as saying

The browser is also available to download across all Apple's iOS devices and as a desktop plug-in for HTML5-enabled browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Apple's Safari.

Top 10 US Websites by Total Visits This Week

Week ending May 19, 2012Source: Experian Hitwise US

Websites	Total Visits	Visits Share	Rank 05/12	Rank 05/05	Rank 04/28
Facebook	1,697,461,441	9.46%	1	1	1
Google	1,470,366,932	8.19%	2	2	2
YouTube	534,449,216	2.98%	3	3	3
Yahoo! Mail	498,539,940	2.78%	4	4	4
Yahoo!	430,756,261	2.40%	5	5	5
Yahoo! Search	251,781,108	1.40%	7	7	7
Bing	245,016,260	1.37%	6	6	6
Gmail	233,776,825	1.30%	8	8	8
msn	169,597,166	0.95%	9	9	9
Windows Live Mail	142,787,040	0.80%	10	11	11

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Pakistani's pictures do the talking By Muddassir Rizvi LAHORE - The narrow alleys behind the majestic Mughal-era Badshahi masjid (King's mosque) in Pakistan's second largest city cradle a people who are looked down on as social outcasts. Though these musicians, dancers and sex workers provide services to many, they are stuck in professions that are not rewarding, either financially or socially, in the mainly Muslim country. But for the majority of them there is no way out because society is not ready to accept them into the mainstream. Depression and gloom underline the lives of these social outcasts of Heera Mandi, Lahore's red-light district. Heera Mandi, Pakistan's most notorious neighborhood, has attracted many researchers, photographers and filmmakers in the past, but Iqbal Hussain, a painter in his late forties, stands out in the way he brings to the world the pain and misery that afflicts its inhabitants. The difference between his work and that of others lies in the fact that he has felt this pain and misery himself. "My family belonged to the same community. My relatives were engaged in the same profession. I had to work so hard to get out," Hussain says. "I know exactly the feelings and problems of these people - I have lived through them," he adds. He is now an assistant professor at Pakistan's prestigious National College of Arts in Lahore. But he continues to live in Heera Mandi, struggling for the financial and social integration of his neighbors in a society where the mention of Heera Mandi is still taboo. His daughters and sisters are in school and share his huge workload of making the lives of their neighbors better. "I help these people to get out," says Hussain, whose 31 paintings on the subject were on display in the lobby of the World Bank's offices in Islamabad earlier this month. The bank is providing US$47.77 million over the next five years to the Pakistani government for the purpose of improving the quality of life in Heera Mandi. Bank officials say that the institution hosted Hussain's painting exhibition to show its commitment to work against the spread of the HIV/AIDS and to prevent it from becoming established in vulnerable populations, including sex workers. Hussain's models are sex workers and dancers from Heera Mandi, who sit for him for hours with sadness and hopelessness written large on their faces, as if pleading to him to show the reality to the world. These people do not just want prevention from HIV/AIDS, but integration and a life of dignity and respect. "Why can't they help us switch to other professions, why do they just tell us to use contraceptives - it seems they want us continue to do what we do," says a sex worker in Heera Mandi. But the government says otherwise. "We are looking at Heera Mandi with the objective of controlling the epidemic of HIV/AIDS. We are laying increased focus on vulnerable populations such as commercial sex workers, injecting drug users, and prisoners," said an official of the National AIDS Control Program. But prevention from disease may not be enough to bring smiles to Hussain's models. Whether it is "Lubna", "Girl in Red" or "Mother and Daughter", all of Hussain's paintings have one thing in common - despair, despondency and depression. The choice of dull colors to paint his subjects has created an ambience that is different from the one of glamour that is socially perceived outside about the lives of people in Heera Mandi. While he has helped many of his neighbors switch to more acceptable professions, he knows he cannot bring about change for the entire community all by himself. "There is not much that is being done by anybody, whether by the government or the NGOs, to improve the lives of these people who are compelled by circumstances to do what they are doing," says Hussain. His task has become more difficult given the increasing number of newcomers to sex work, mainly due to poverty. "Where there was one girl in a room, now there are five," he explains. "Many land here from rural areas because their parents couldn't marry them off for the reason that they didn't have money to give them customary dowry," he explains. "Some would break out of their vicious lives of poverty to make more money as sex workers only to find a stark reality." There have been no surveys to establish the number of people who offer their services, whether as musicians, dancers or sex workers in Heera Mandi. However, a national survey a couple of months ago by the International Human Rights Monitoring (IHRM) group suggested that there are around 800,000 sex workers in the country, with an annual rise of around 100,000 in their population. "As many as 44 percent of women resort to the sex trade due to poverty, 32 percent by deception, 18 percent due to coercing, 4 percent due to surroundings [born to sex workers] and only 2 percent are involved in the sex trade at their own will," said the IHRM report. Against this backdrop, the centuries-old rich music and dance traditions of Heera Mandi have been overshadowed by the sex trade. Heera Mandi also stands as a bare contradiction to the country's laws and Islamic values. After all, the sex trade is illegal under the Suppression of Prostitution Ordinance 1961. This law bans running a brothel, enticing or leading a woman or girl for prostitution, and forcing a woman or a girl to have sexual intercourse. Besides these, more stringent Islamic laws declare adultery punishable with stoning to death. But "this is not about enforcing the laws, but eliminating social apartheid, discrimination on the basis of profession and taboos," argues Hussain.

Karachi’s killing fields

The various kinds of violence that confront Karachi form a puzzle that seems to be becoming increasingly difficult to understand, let alone unravel or solve. The situation is further complicated because the precise contours of the violence keep changing. Sometimes, it assumes sectarian dimensions, while at other times it takes on an ethnic or social shape. This multi-dimensional picture makes matters very difficult to comprehend and even more difficult to tackle with any degree of lasting success. Certainly, so far, the authorities have failed in all endeavours to either identify or resolve the source of this violence and mayhem.

However, the latest episode of blood-letting to shatter Karachi was relatively easier to comprehend since it was quite evidently political in nature. The Awami Tehrik, which faced the brunt of the attack in which at least 12 people died and another 35 were injured, had been staging a rally to protest recent demands, by hitherto unknown quarters, for a Mohajir province in Sindh, while also protesting the operation in Lyari. The president of the party, Ayaz Latif Palijo, had announced some days ago that his party would hold the rally following which he said he had been receiving threatening phone calls. The banned Peoples Amn Committee, the PML-N and other groups had joined the protest, as had other smaller forces to support the cause. Even though the situation turned brutal, the threat of greater violence lies ahead. Perhaps not entirely unnaturally, the Awami Tehrik has vowed to avenge every drop of blood that was shed. The last thing we need in Karachi, or any other city for that matter, is of course, yet another bloodbath.

The question, of course, is how to stop it. Hatred and anger flows in streams through the streets of Karachi. In fact, it appears as though this terrible tide is spreading. We have seen Pathans pitched against other groups, Sunni extremists targeting Shias and now we have Sindhi nationalists entering the fray in a deeply divided province. No one seems to hold the ends of the rope that can tie it back together and this is, perhaps the most dangerous reality of all given the growing volatility of the situation.

INTEL-ISEF 2012: Pakistanis take home prize at world's largest science fair

Mahnoor Hassan, Shiza Gulab and Bushra Shahed of Institute of Computer and Management Sciences take 4th prize. PHOTO: THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE

PITTSBURGH: With just three finalists present among 1,549 students, two Pakistani teenagers managed to snag a fourth place, $500 award at the Grand Awards Ceremony of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair on Friday in Pittsburgh.
The project titled: Energy Square for Cattle, created by Mahnoor Hassan, Shiza Gulab and Bushra Shahed of the Institute of Computer and Management Sciences in Peshawar took fourth prize in the Animal Sciences Category.
Hassan and Gulab were there to collect the prize for their project. They explained that their project is good for all livestock in times of natural disaster.
The fair concluded on Friday afternoon, in a confetti haze as the top prizewinner was announced. The winner was fifteen-year-old Jack Andraka from the US state of Maryland who created a Non-Invasive Pancreatic Cancer Detection Tool.
The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, the largest of its kind, is a program of the non-profit Society for Science and the Public (SSP) and encourages young innovators to engage in math and science.

Rohrabacher on Afridi verdict: ‘Pakistan sees itself at war with US’

US Congre­ssman Dana Rohrab­acher says Pakist­an remain­s terror­ist state. Taliba­n only tip of spear, Pakist­an real enemy.

Published: May 23, 2012

Rohrabacher says US must stop refusing entry to people just to please ISI, Pakistan. PHOTO: AGENCIES/FILE

WASHINGTON: US Congressman Dana Rohrabacher said that Dr Shakil Afridi’s prison sentence is “decisive proof that Pakistan sees itself as being at war” with the US.
In a press statement, Republican Rep. Rohrbacher said, “there is no shared interest against Islamic terrorism. On 9/11, Pakistan was coordinating the efforts of the Taliban who were in league with Osama bin Laden. In 2012, Pakistan is still working very closely with the Taliban, whose leader Mullah Omar was plotting with Bin Laden right up until he was killed, according to documents taken from Bin Laden’s Pakistan home. Pakistan was and remains a terrorist state.”
Rep. Rohrabacher, who is also the chairman for the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, had earlier this year introduced two bills calling for Afridi to be given US citizenship, and that he be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal.
The press release said that the US congressman was “dismayed” that the bill had not been brought to the House floor for a vote. “Dr Afridi came through for the American people, now it is our time to come through for him.”
“Advocates of aid argue we should draw a distinction between the civilian government and the military-intelligence cabal who are supporting terrorist groups that murder Americans, but President [Asif Ali] Zardari’s behavior at the Nato summit in Chicago indicates that he is either in league with the military or under their domination. Any money that goes to Islamabad will continue to end up in the pockets of people actively and deadly hostile to America.
“Secretary Clinton will have to do more than voice protests over the Afridi case. Both the Departments of State and Defense need to take punitive actions against Pakistan. Carrots are not enough when dealing with an adversary. Sticks are needed to prove we are serious. Cutting off aid to the regime while providing support to groups like the Balochi people who are oppressed by Islamabad will send a message that it doesn’t pay to confront America,” said Rep. Rohrabacher.
“Pakistan was invited to the Nato summit to foster cooperation, but no cooperation was evident. Pakistan is still keeping supply lines to Nato forces in Afghanistan blocked. As Nato withdraws, Pakistan sees its chance to increase its use of terrorist groups as its vanguard for taking over Afghanistan and spreading radical Islam throughout the region. We need to enlist Russia and India to support anti-Pakistan forces in Afghanistan such as the Northern Alliance. The Taliban is only the tip of the spear, the real enemy is Pakistan,” he added.
Rep. Rohrabacher’s amendment to the NDAA proposing all aid be cut off to Pakistan was defeated last week in a vote on the House floor.

'URS' FESTIVAL OF MUHAMMAD MOINUDDIN CHISTI

Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims and fakirs came to celebrate and pay their respects to the saint

Thousands of Sufi Muslim pilgrims from across India converge on the North Indian town of Ajmer to mark the 'Urs' (death anniversary) Festival of Muhammad Moinuddin Chisti, a 12th century Sufi saint from Persia who lies buried in Ajmer

Sufi Muslim devotees smoke marijuana from a pipe during the annual 'Urs' procession.

A Sufi Muslim devotee gestures to other pilgrims to enter the 'durgah' or shrine, where Muhammad Moin-ud-din Chisti is buried, during the annual 'Urs' procession.

  Sufi Muslim pilgrims carry flags as they march towards the 'durgah' or shrine, where Muhammad Moin-ud-din Chisti is buried, during the annual 'Urs' procession.

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US-Pakistan thaw swiftly becomes debacle

This handout picture provided by the White House shows US President Barack Obama (L) speaking with President Hamid Karzai (C) of Afghanistan, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari at the McCormick Place Convention Center during the Nato Summit in Chicago on May 21, 2012. – Photo by AFP

WASHINGTON: A summit meant to symbolize a thaw between the United States and Pakistan has only worsened the bad blood, with the troubled relationship casting a pall over Nato plans on Afghanistan.

The Western alliance at the last minute invited President Asif Ali Zardari to a summit in Chicago on the future of Afghanistan, with officials predicting a deal with Pakistan on reopening supply routes vital for US and allied troops.

But no deal materialised, in an apparent dispute over how much to pay Pakistan. Zardari left Chicago jilted after President Barack Obama only agreed to see him in passing, while US officials increasingly voiced exasperation on finding a way forward with Pakistan.

Obama, speaking Monday at the end of the conference, admitted frustration, saying: “There’s no doubt that there have been tensions between (Nato forces) and Pakistan, the United States and Pakistan over the last several months.”

But Obama said that US priorities remained the same – that “Pakistan has to be part of the solution in Afghanistan that it is in our national interest to see a Pakistan that is democratic, that is prosperous and that is stable.”

Obama, soon after his election, determined to put a new focus on Pakistan amid US concerns that part of the country’s powerful military and intelligence still supports extremists after a decade of war in Afghanistan.
Obama has stepped up drone attacks deep into Pakistani territory but has also hoped to empower civilian institutions. Zardari took office in 2008 after a decade of military-backed rule and, despite deep unpopularity, is on course to be the first democratic Pakistani leader to complete a full term.

Bruce Riedel, who led the administration’s initial strategy review on Afghanistan and Pakistan after Obama took office in 2009, criticized the US decision not to hold a full-fledged meeting with Zardari in Chicago.
“Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but that’s bad form,” said Riedel, a former US policymaker who is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

“Zardari is an extremely proud person and to be snubbed in the way that he was, I think is going to come home to haunt us,” Riedel said.

While not uncritical of Zardari, Riedel said that the president was the Pakistani power-broker most in tune with the US vision for the region.

Zardari – whose wife, former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, was assassinated in 2007 – has called on Pakistan to do more to battle extremists and worked to ease tensions with India, last month paying a rare trip to the historic rival.

“I hope that what happened in Chicago won’t discourage him, but I have a bad feeling that this is a very significant setback for us,” Riedel said.

For Pakistanis, the Chicago snub could reinforce their long-held suspicions – that the United States will abandon their country once it completes its withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan in 2014.

Some Pakistani analysts have cited the specter of a US departure to justify maintaining contact with hardliners in Afghanistan. The United States has accused Pakistani intelligence of close coordination with the Haqqani network, which is blamed for attacks on US troops.

Pakistan, which helped create Afghanistan’s Taliban regime, threw its support behind the United States after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

But it shut down its supply routes on the border after US air strikes killed 26 Pakistani troops in November on the border. Obama has voiced regret, calling the deaths an accident, but has refused demands for an apology.

US officials said that plans to reopen the supply routes broke down after Pakistan dramatically raised its demands on payment for each truck going through the border.

The United States has provided Pakistan more than $18 billion in assistance since 2001 and the aid is highly sensitive. A number of lawmakers have sought to end assistance after US forces killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan last year, raising allegations that intelligence services may have abetted the world’s most wanted man.

Some US officials suspected privately that Zardari was being undercut in Chicago by the military, which wanted full control of the war effort and to deprive the civilian leader of a success.
Lisa Curtis, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, said there was no “personal snub” to Zardari.

“It was simply making a statement that Pakistan is not helping with the Afghanistan effort. If Pakistan wants to help, it will be welcome at the table, but so long as it remains outside that effort and is in fact undermining that effort, then Pakistan should be snubbed,” she said.

Pakistani doctor who helped in Osama bin Laden raid convicted of treason

Bin Laden informant: Dr Shakil Afridi sentenced to 33 years

A Pakistani doctor who helped in the CIA hunt for Osama bin Laden has been convicted of high treason and sentenced to 33 years in prison, according to local government officials.

Shakeel Afridi was arrested three weeks after a US Navy Seal team killed the al-Qaeda leader at his hideaway in Abbottabad, only 30 miles from Islamabad.

The harsh sentence will provide ammunition to critics who believe that Pakistan is more intent on rounding up people who helped hunt for the world’s most wanted man — rather than those who hid him on Pakistani soil for five years.

And it will drive a further wedge between Islamabad and what remains of the country’s allies in Washington.
Dr Afridi was not present in court on Wednesday nor was he represented by a lawyer under the terms of the archaic British colonial laws which still govern Pakistan’s tribal belt.
“He has been sentenced for 33 years on treason charges and has been moved to Peshawar central jail after the verdict was announced by the local court,” said Mohammad Siddiq, spokesman for the administrative head of Khyber, where the case was heard.
The offences related to infringements of sovereignty and concealing plans to wage war against Pakistan.
Dr Afridi set up a fake hepatitis vaccination campaign in March last year, according to residents of Abbottabad.
Although the CIA had tracked an al-Qaeda courier to the three-storey villa they could not be sure that the tall figure, visible pacing up and down in satellite images, was bin Laden himself.
Intelligence officials believe Dr Afridi was recruited during a trip to the US in 2009 when he was out of work.
He had been kidnapped and then forced to flee his home in Bara, in Khyber Agency, by the Lashkar-e-Islam militant group, which accused him of botched operations.
After returning to Pakistan he took a government job as Khyber’s chief surgeon.
Last year, he rented a house in Abbottabad and hired a nurse to launch the vaccination ruse.
The idea was to obtain blood from bin Laden’s children so their DNA could be compared with a sample from the al-Qaeda leader’s sister who died in Boston in 2010.
Although he apparently failed to collect blood, he was able to secure a telephone number for Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, bin Laden’s trusted courier, enabling the CIA to confirm his identity.
His role has been lauded by American officials who have demanded his release by Pakistan’s intelligence services.
In January, Leon Panetta, the US defence secretary said: “For them to take this kind of action against somebody who was helping to go after terrorism, I just think is a real mistake on their part.
Hasan Askari Rizvi, a political analyst, said Pakistan insisted that any other country would have prosecuted a citizen working for a foreign intelligence agency but the sentence would raise questions about its commitment to tackling terrorists.
“It looks very different from the outside and this will only add to the list of complaints against Pakistan,” he said.
The two countries are already at loggerheads over Pakistan’s refusal to allow Nato supplies to pass across its territory.
And the sentence comes only two days after President Barack Obama refused a formal meeting with his counterpart, Asif Ali Zardari, at a Nato summit in Chicago.