Islamabad, May 8(ANI): Pakistanis are expressing their anger through text messages over their military's failure to detect US helicopters' presence in the country, with one such SMS saying that the Army's radar, which cannot detect choppers but can receive Star Plus signals, is for sale only for 999 rupees.
Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, who had evaded capture for a decade, was killed on May 2 in a top secret operation involving a small team of US Special Forces in Abbottabad, located 50 kilometres northeast of Islamabad and 150 kilometres east of Peshawar.
Pakistanis are upset by their intelligence community's failure to locate Bin Laden, and also enraged by their military's failure to detect the pair of US military helicopters involved in the 40-minute raid at the most wanted terrorist's compound.
Pakistanis, either living in the country or abroad, are expressing their strong resentment over the performance of the Pakistan Army and specifically its radar system, by using cellular networks and social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter.
"Radar For Sale, Model No. 438, Pakistan Army made, can't detect USA helicopters, but can receive Star Plus (an Indian entertainment TV channel), only for Rs999. Please contact General Ashfaq Kayani," The Nation quoted a widely circulated text message, as saying.
A similar textual matter read: " Pak Army's latest air surveillance radar for sale, though it cant detect enemy's choppers or aircrafts, but it is good to get Star TV, Discovery and other TV channels."
A Facebook user commented on the statement of the Pakistan Air Force's Chief, Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman, that radars deployed on the western borders were not active at the time of US invasion.
In a comic way, the user linked the inactivity of radars with load shedding, saying that the forces have transferred all the electricity generators on the eastern borders of the country.
There are some other messages consisting of funny statements, quoting the last words of bin Laden.
"American CIA has claimed that the last words of OBL were 'Haq ki khuli kitab Altaf, Altaf," said a message, referring to a popular slogan among Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) activists," said one such message. (ANI)
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