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VARDAN VOSKANYAN: CURRENT BAKU ADMINISTRATION BEHAVES LIKE PROVINCIAL WHO BECAME RICH BY ACCIDENT
Panorama.am
06/09/2012
Panorama.am has contacted Vardan Voskanyan, Associate Professor of
the Chair of Iranian Studies of Yerevan State University, for comment
on recent remarks by the Ambassador of Pakistan to Azerbaijan.
- Mister Voskanyan, recently Azeri media actively spread a statement
by Inayatullah Kakar calling Safarov "hero of the entire Muslim
world." How do you comment on this?
- Firstly, judging by the information of Azeri media, the statement
does not express the views of Islamabad - it was merely the personal
opinion of the Ambassador. Secondly, be it in the West or in Muslim
East, Ramil Safarov's act can only be described as a foul murder.
Cynical statements about his alleged heroism, even within the Muslim
world, are nothing else but the result of morbid imagination of
separate politically committed figures, who naturally have neither
powers nor rights to speak on behalf of all Muslims.
Also, it is noteworthy that in Pakistan itself, to all appearances,
certain public and political circles have absolutely different
opinion. On the same day when, as quoted by Azeri media, Inayatullah
Kakar made such a statement, Pakistan's English-language newspaper
Pakistan Today published an article on the extradition and pardon of
Ramil Safarov, calling him an "axe killer" as well as widely quoting
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.
- What could be the reason behind such a statement by a representative
of a country where too many people have no idea about Azerbaijan as
a state?
- There could be different theories. It's no secret that current Baku
administration, dizzy by oil revenues, even in the European arena
behaves like a provincial who became rich by accident, trying to solve
its problems not intellectually and by everyday laborious task but
through bribery. According to estimates of international experts,
Pakistan is among the countries which have the most corrupt system
of government.
However, it is also likely that Azeri media ascribed to Pakistan's
Ambassador the words written by themselves or distorted his words,
especially as all Azeri media without exception distorted the
Ambassador's name. This cannot be ruled out, especially as the latest
stupid propaganda fraud - "letter from ASALA" - was fabricated on
the same provincial level, within Aliyev agitprop.
From: Baghdasarian
Panorama.am
06/09/2012
Panorama.am has contacted Vardan Voskanyan, Associate Professor of
the Chair of Iranian Studies of Yerevan State University, for comment
on recent remarks by the Ambassador of Pakistan to Azerbaijan.
- Mister Voskanyan, recently Azeri media actively spread a statement
by Inayatullah Kakar calling Safarov "hero of the entire Muslim
world." How do you comment on this?
- Firstly, judging by the information of Azeri media, the statement
does not express the views of Islamabad - it was merely the personal
opinion of the Ambassador. Secondly, be it in the West or in Muslim
East, Ramil Safarov's act can only be described as a foul murder.
Cynical statements about his alleged heroism, even within the Muslim
world, are nothing else but the result of morbid imagination of
separate politically committed figures, who naturally have neither
powers nor rights to speak on behalf of all Muslims.
Also, it is noteworthy that in Pakistan itself, to all appearances,
certain public and political circles have absolutely different
opinion. On the same day when, as quoted by Azeri media, Inayatullah
Kakar made such a statement, Pakistan's English-language newspaper
Pakistan Today published an article on the extradition and pardon of
Ramil Safarov, calling him an "axe killer" as well as widely quoting
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.
- What could be the reason behind such a statement by a representative
of a country where too many people have no idea about Azerbaijan as
a state?
- There could be different theories. It's no secret that current Baku
administration, dizzy by oil revenues, even in the European arena
behaves like a provincial who became rich by accident, trying to solve
its problems not intellectually and by everyday laborious task but
through bribery. According to estimates of international experts,
Pakistan is among the countries which have the most corrupt system
of government.
However, it is also likely that Azeri media ascribed to Pakistan's
Ambassador the words written by themselves or distorted his words,
especially as all Azeri media without exception distorted the
Ambassador's name. This cannot be ruled out, especially as the latest
stupid propaganda fraud - "letter from ASALA" - was fabricated on
the same provincial level, within Aliyev agitprop.
From: Baghdasarian