Pak ad in Wall Street Journal on Sep 11 draws flak in US


An advertisement by Pakistan in America's leading daily the Wall Street Journal on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks has not gone down well with readers here with some calling the ad a"joke"and questioning how a country where Osama bin Laden was hiding safely for years can"claim to be a victim of terrorism".

Readers posted their reaction to the half-page advertisement in'The Threat Matrix,'a blog of the Long War Journal, which is a publication focused on providing reporting and analysis on the global war on terror.

"This is quite humorous. They could do a hell of a lot for world peace by destroying their plethora of militant groups. Does any other nation have such an inflated sense of self worth (sic),"reads one of the over a dozen comments posted on the blog.

Another reader comments,"It would be nice if you would purge the ISI of Taliban/al Qaeda sympathisers for more details....http://www.indiareport.com/India-usa-uk-news/latest-news/1084291/International/2/3/2

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