http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050514/wl_sthasia_afp/pakistanusmedia_050514134134if they can't handle being drawn as a cartoon dog, then they are never, ever, ever going to be even remotely democratic, or for that matter pleasant to be around. comes with the territory.
i dont mind beaching about us policy, but wrapping an entire nations emotions into a singular newspaper cartoon is just ridicilous. i cant belive that they apologized.
lighten up and grow some skin people.
geesh.
US newspaper regrets lampooning Pakistan over anti-terror role
Sat May 14, 9:41 AM ET
ISLAMABAD (AFP) - The Washington Times has sent its regrets to the Pakistan embassy in the US over a cartoon that Islamabad said was contemptuous of the country's role in the US war on terror, officials said.
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The regret came in a letter written by the editor-in-chief of the US newspaper. Excerpts were made available by the foreign office here.
"The cartoonist inadvertently caused offense to Pakistani citizens," Wesley Pruden said, according to the foreign ministry spokesman Jail Abbas Jilani on Saturday.
"This was not his intention and nor was it the intention of the newspaper," Pruden wrote in the letter that was delivered on Friday.
The cartoon showed a dog personifying Pakistan and a US soldier patting it for its role in the fight against terror, which sparked protests in Pakistan.
Pakistan's parliament passed a unanimous resolution condemning it and demanded an apology from the newspaper.
Jilani said "we are glad that the Washington Times has regretted something which has hurt the feelings of Pakistanis and the forces of moderation."
The cartoon was published on May 6 after US
President George W. Bush praised Pakistan for the capture of Abu Faraj al-Libbi, Al-Qaeda's alleged third in command and a close aide of
Osama bin Laden.
Islamabad has also sent thousands of troops into its unruly northwestern tribal districts bordering
Afghanistan to hunt Al-Qaeda militants who sneaked across the frontier after the ousting of the Taliban in late 2001.
