I hope all Pakistanis have by now heard the latest joke: That our Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has called on the government of Burma to release opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi from jail.
This story is especially relevant to the 1.5 million Pakistanis who are sleeping in the wilderness now thanks to the anti-Pakistan scheming of the Americans and their poodles [Britain, Karzai, India] in Afghanistan. Mr. Qureshi has no time to raise the issue of the weapons and money coming from Afghanistan to the terrorists inside Pakistan. No, he has no time for this. But he has all the time in the world to worry about Ms. Kyi's health. What a compassionate man.
Here's my reaction on the statement: Ha ha ha ha ha.
No really.
What is Pakistani Foreign Minister's business in calling for the release of Burma's opposition leader?
Was Mr. Shah Mahmood Qureshi bored of the myriad foreign policy problems facing Pakistan that he chose to make a statement that obviously is none of our business and only seeks to appease Washington and London?
Burma's government has decided to put the lady opposition leader on trial because she basically is a tool in the hands of US and UK, the Am-Brit brigade. She is a tool pretty much like Foreign Minister Qureshi's own government and his own boss, President Zardari.
This partially explains why Mr. Qureshi stuck his nose where it doesn't belong.
But there is another explanation.
Burma's government has excellent relations with China and Pakistan, and not with the Am-Brit brigade, US and UK. The free press in Washington and London keeps the story of Ms. Suu Kyi alive because this way they keep the pressure on Burma's government. The usual pretext of human rights and democracy is used for this Am-Brit interference.
Pakistan supports the government of Burma since we have no problem with them and it is none of our business what they do to the lady opposition leader who's basically an American poodle, or ... I'm sure you get what the appropriate word here is.
The only reason I can think of that made Pakistani Foreign Minister Qureshi issue this unusual statement is because that's what Washington wants.
This would also be a clear signal to Beijing that Islamabad is firmly in the US orbit. The Burmese government would also be in a shock because they thought Pakistan supported them since like us they are also sick and tired of Indian arrogance and often take joy in cutting India down to size in their own ways.
Mr. Qureshi had more urgent business to attend to than to interfere in Burma's internal matters. Besides the issue the of American double game against Pakistan in Afghanistan, Mr. Qureshi should have been more concerned about the statement issued by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization [SCO] and by a Russian official on Pakistan's nuclear arsenal. The statement basically endorsed the Am-Brit [American-British] propaganda on the safety of Pakistan's strategic weapons.
This appears to be an urgent business that begs Mr. Qureshi's attention. But no. Mr. Qureshi and his US puppet government is more interested in appeasing its masters in Washington.