US, India, Israel are true terrorists, Majid Nizami

Dr Ashraf Choudhray said New Zealand was the only country which took a stand against the invasion of Iraq and chose not to be part of the ‘coalition of the willing. “It was the first time that the country went against its kith and kin in the UK as the country considered it morally wrong to invade Iraq. Pakistan faces a series of crises and the country needs to look inwards for finding the answers,” he added.
Dr Farzana Shaikh said there could be no excuse for killing of innocent people therefore the whole concept of causes of terrorism was somewhat misplaced. “Pakistan’s strategy of dealing with Indian hegemony can be one factor but we should not confuse between political violence and terrorism as one thing,” she said.
Shamshad Ahmad stressed that Pakistan needed to understand its obligations and responsibilities as a sovereign state in deciding which course to adopt.
Dr. Saeed Shafqat said the concept of sovereignty was ‘organised hypocrisy’ in the case of Pakistan as the elite were completely on board with what the state’s goals and policies should be. “We should seriously reconsider the role of United States in an objective light and study merits and de-merits of US influence or US role in Pakistan,” he added.