Ashraf Jehangir Qazi Quotes
If you make mistakes too often people think that you are doing it deliberately.
During the War on Terror, American CIA and military entered Pakistani territory hunting for terrorist leaders. The border area in question is really controlled by Tribal lords with their own armed forces, and the Pakistani government loathed to send troops into the area to apprehend terrorists. Occasionally American forces went in from the Afghanistan side and captured some. Their “cover” was that they had made a mistake as to where the border was. The Pakistanis were very sensitive about their sovereignty and complained profusely.
Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, Pakistani Ambassador to the United States, Interview, CNN Late Edition, May 23, 2004
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Ashraf Jehangir Qazi (Urdu: اشرف جہانگیر قاضی; born 1942) is a Pakistani diplomat who has held several national and international appointments, including serving with the United Nations.
