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Sethi suggests legislation to regulate foreign security companies

Daily Times Monitor

LAHORE: Senior journalist and analyst Najam Sethi has suggested proper legislation by parliament for regulating foreign security companies working in Pakistan in order to avoid an Iraq-like situation, a private TV channel reported on Sunday.

Speaking during his programme on Dunya News, Sethi said he feared that if the situation in Pakistan became like that in Iraq, the people could attack US embassies in Pakistan, as the public already did not have a positive image of the US. He said the US could be thinking of engaging private security agency Blackwater to secure its installations in the wake of recent terrorist attacks across the country. Sethi said around 300 additional US nationals would be arriving in Pakistan after the approval of the Kerry-Lugar law. If the government’s claims that US Marines would not operate in the country were true, who would provide security to the increased US staff and expanded embassy facilities in Islamabad, Sethi questioned.

He said Blackwater had changed its name to XE after becoming infamous around the world, adding that the agency was run by anti-Islam Christians, who could be dubbed “jihadi Christians”.

Sethi said Jundullah was a Sunni Baloch group involved in attacks on Iranian security forces and installations, but Iranian charges that Pakistan, the US and Britain were backing the group were completely false.

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