Pakistani Minister: Pentagon Behind Arab Revolts

Pakistan's The News reports:

Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir on Saturday told the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs that Pentagon injected $130 million in Western media to destabilise the Arab countries and US is supporting opposition in these countries as well.

The meeting of the Senate committee was held here at the Parliament House with its chairman Salim Saifullah in the chair. The meeting was attended by Senator Khursheed Ahmed, Senator Jan Jamali and other officials.

Salman Bashir while briefing the Senate committee on the Middle East situation and the evacuation of Pakistanis from troubled areas of Libya and Bahrain, told the committee that Pakistan has good relations with Arab countries and the situation there is a matter of concern. He said the crisis in the Arab world has also caused a split among the Muslim countries.

“We believe that foreign force is not a solution and military action extremely dangerous notion,” Salman Bashir said. He added that whenever such a situation is created the people should decide the future.

He said the main reason of crisis in the Arab world is corruption, unemployment, police abuse and ban on political parties.

The foreign secretary said that the crises in the Middle East are likely to worsen further. He said that the situation in Libya is different from other Arab countries as Col Qaddafi is not liked by many world leaders and this could be the reason for action against him.

Salman Bashir told that the attack on Libya was in accordance with the UN resolution.