Forgotten Osama Already?’ Shashi Tharoor On Donald Trump-Asim Munir Lunch

Thiruvananthapuram:

Remember Osama bin Laden – the Al-Qaeda terrorist boss behind the 2001 World Trade Center attack that killed nearly 3,000 people, and who was found hiding near a Pakistan Army camp.

This was Congress MP Shashi Tharoor‘s stark message to the American people amid disquiet over President Donald Trump‘s lunch date Wednesday with Pak Army chief General Asim Munir.

“Some Senators and Congressmen who met the Pak delegation did… but people in the US could not have forgotten the Osama episode so quickly. Pak’s culpability in hiding this man until he was found… near an Army camp cannot be so easily forgiven by the Americans,” he said.

The warning was subtle but clear – do not trust a duplicitous Pak administration, given it had harboured the man responsible for the worst terror attack in US history, and also supports terrorist attacks on India

Mr Tharoor said he hoped President Trump took the opportunity to warn the Army chief against ‘financing, arming, training, and dispatching terrorists to our country (India) from their soil’.