It is time Pakistan declared a terrorist state Rushdie

It is time Pakistan declared a terrorist state - Salman Rushdie


terrorist state - Salman Rushdie : As Pakistan faced tough questions over Osama bin Laden, celebrated Indian-born novelist Salman Rushdie said it was time to declare it a "terrorist state", observing "the old flim-flam" of saying the country knew nothing about his whereabouts would not work anymore.

"This time the facts speak too loudly to be hushed up," he said in an essay published on the website 'The Daily Beast' after the world's most wanted terrorist and 9/11 mastermind was found down the road from Pakistan's top military academy in Abbottabad, about 120 km from Islamabad yesterday.



Rushdie said in the aftermath of the US raid on bin Laden's mansion all the "big" questions needed to be answered by Pakistan.

"The old flim-flam ('Who, us? We knew nothing!') just isn't going to wash, must not be allowed to wash by countries such as the United States that have persisted in treating Pakistan as an ally even though they have long known about the Pakistani double game – its support, for example, for the Haqqani network that has killed hundreds of Americans in Afghanistan," he said.