Army wants strict visa policy for foreign journalists
ISLAMABAD — The Pakistan army and the premier intelligence agency (ISI) have asked the government to tighten the visa policy especially for the Western media men especially the American journalists.
According to well-placed defense sources, they have noted that the American journalists are arriving here on ‘business visas.’ “This should not be on as these so-called media people serve as sources of their respective intelligence agencies,” a source said requesting anonymity.
“They (visiting foreign journalists) are also detrimental to our national interest as they give colour of their perception against Pakistan to the pieces of information they confront as foreigners here,” the sources observed. He also recalled recent news about the Americans plans to apply lie-detector-tests to the Pakistanis arriving at any airport in the US. “Why cannot we apply such tests and scrutiny measures on the visitors coming to Pakistan,” the sources said.
The sources were of the view that Western powers with the US on top of them had unleashed a psychological warfare against Pakistan: “army, air force, and navy through their arms of assault or media, intelligence agencies and covert operations.“
The source termed the latest report in the international media claiming a race between the ISI and the CIA hunting for Mulla Omar as part of the constant psychological assaults against Pakistan. “The main purpose of such reports was to portray Pakistan as helpless and the US as sole super power of the world which could walk into anyone’s home,” the source added.
He describe it a baseless sensationalisation to say that a grand army operation in Quetta was in the offing as claimed by the report. The British newspaper, The Sun, like many other Western papers had reported on Tuesday that both the US and the Pakistani special forces were hunting the Taliban spiritual leader’s hideout after new tip-offs.
Source: The Nation
Date:5/11/2011
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