Azerbaijan, Baku, 24 September / Trend corr. D.Ibrahimova / Pakistan refused from the US assistance in investigation into the blast at Marriott hotel to prove its competence and objectivity in the investigation.
" Pakistan wants to prove that it is powerful enough to investigate the blast independently," Abdul Hey Anis, a Pakistani political scientist, told Trend .
On 21 September the US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) offered Pakistan its help in investigation of the blast at Marriott hotel, happened on 21 September. However, Pakistan refused from assistance.
"We do not need any assistance. We are competent enough and refuse from it," Rehman Malik. Advisor of the Pakistani Government on security affairs, told correspondents on 21 September, the American US Today newspaper reported.
Pakistan's refusal from the FBI assistance is quite understandable, Ayesha Jalal, the Professor of the US Taft University said.
"With the United States seen as violating Pakistan's sovereignty by attacking FATAH, it is politically problematic for the Pakistan government to turn to the FBI to do its investigation in connection with the Marriot Hotel bombing," Jalal told Trend on 21 September.
There is one more reason of refusal from assistance. Several hours before the blast at Marriott hotel, the recently elected Pakistani President Asif Ali Zerdari stated that his government can successfully struggle against terrorists.
According to the Pakistani political scientist Anis, earlier Islamabad could cope with investigations of blasts independently and that was the reason of refusal from the FBI.
The Pakistani Interior Ministry plans to hold series of antiterrorist operations in the Northern and Southern Vaziristan (a border province, which is under control of radical Taliban and Al-Kaida movements).
"If they hit snags in the investigation, they can always turn to the FBI or the Scotland Yard as they did at the time of Benazir's assassination," Jalal said.
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