ISLAMABAD, Sept 2: The mystery of unexploded missiles, found in Baluchistan, has received a new twist with the claim of the Awami National Party (ANP)'s information secretary, that one of them was fired from Afghanistan by Osama bin Laden's men who felt betrayed.Senator Zahid Khan said bin Laden's men fired the missiles not to retaliate the American missile attacks on their hide-out in Khost but to react to the ``betrayal'' by an important political leader who was in the United States at the time of American missile attacks. This leader, said Senator Khan, had volunteered some classified information about bin Laden to authorities in Washington, reports The Dawn of Karachi.Khan did not disclose the identity of this leader, but his statement in Lahore came at a time when questions were being raised about the role of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his younger brother Shahbaaz Sharif in the American missile attacks on Afghanistan. An ultra militant outfit Markaz-e-Da'wa-Al Arshad in a pamphlet hasaccused the Sharif government of allowing the American missiles to be fired from the Pakistani soil. Former army chief Aslam Baig also alleged that the Sharif government had assisted the United States in the attack.Shahbaaz Sharif's presence in Washington on the day of missile attacks had first attracted the Jamaat-i-Islami's attention. The party's women wing held a massive rally in Lahore a day after the missile attack and asked what Shahbaaz Sharif was doing in Washington on the day of the missile attack. The younger Sharif (he is the Chief Minister of Punjab) was supposed to be discussing Pakistan's economy with American officials.The Muttehida Quami Movement (MQM)'s headquarters in Karachi has issued a statement of party chief Altaf Hussain saying that Sharif's denial that he was not told of the missile attacks only showed that the country's defence was not in safe hands.
