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A elder American lawmaker has told a visiting Pakistani delegation, led by Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, that the state should bash "all it can” to destruct the “vile” violent radical Jaish-e-Mohammed arsenic good arsenic guarantee extortion of spiritual minorities.
The Pakistani delegation met Congressman Brad Sherman connected Thursday (June 5) , timing their sojourn to the U.S. superior astir the aforesaid clip arsenic a multi-party delegation of Indian parliamentarians led by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor is successful Washington DC.
The all-party delegation is briefing cardinal interlocutors astir Operation Sindoor successful the aftermath of the Pahalgam panic onslaught and India’s beardown resoluteness to combat coercion emanating from Pakistan.
In a station connected X, Sherman said that helium “emphasised to the Pakistani delegation the value of combatting terrorism, and successful particular, the radical Jaish-e-Mohammed, who murdered my constituent Daniel Pearl successful 2002”.
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Terrorist Omar Saeed Sheikh was convicted of orchestrating the 2002 kidnapping and execution of Wall Street Journal newsman Daniel Pearl.
Mr. Sherman said Pearl’s household continues to unrecorded successful his territory and “Pakistan should bash each it tin to destruct this vile radical and combat coercion successful the region”.
Mr. Bhutto besides landed successful the U.S. astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic the Tharoor-led delegation.
Mr. Bhutto met UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres with his delegation arsenic good arsenic Security Council Ambassadors successful New York, and aboriginal travelled to Washington successful Pakistan’s bid to internationalise the struggle with India arsenic good arsenic the Kashmir contented but alternatively got instructed to woody with coercion emanating from its soil.
The U.S. lawmaker besides told the Pakistani delegation that the extortion of spiritual minorities successful Pakistan remains an important issue.
"Christians, Hindus and Ahmadiyya Muslims surviving successful Pakistan indispensable beryllium allowed to signifier their religion and enactment successful the antiauthoritarian strategy without fearfulness of violence, persecution, discrimination, oregon an unequal justness system.” Sherman further urged the Pakistani delegation to relay to their authorities the request to escaped Dr Shakil Afridi, who continues to languish successful situation for helping the United States termination Osama bin Laden.
“Freeing Dr Afridi represents an important measurement successful bringing closure for victims of 9/11,” helium said.
Afridi is simply a Pakistani doc who helped the CIA tally a polio vaccination programme successful Khyber Pakhtunkhwa state to cod DNA samples of bin Laden’s family.
Afridi was arrested by Pakistani authorities soon aft the American raid connected bin Laden’s compound successful Abbottabad successful May 2011. In 2012, a Pakistani tribunal sentenced Afridi to 33 years successful prison.
Published - June 07, 2025 07:14 americium IST
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