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Zardari condemns Bahawalpur train bomb attack
 (AKI) - President Asif Ali Zardari has strongly condemned the bomb blast that struck a train near Bahawalpur in eastern Pakistan on Friday. He hd three choices: He could ignore it -- not a good choice, since everybody else'd noticed it; He could approve it, declaring himself on the side of the bad guyz -- not a good choice, since he'd then have to rationalize their behavior some way or other; Or he could condemn it. Condeming it was simplest, since he's now on record and he can forget about it, like he seems to have forgotten about his wife's departure from the gene pool. Zardari said such acts would not deter the government's resolve to fight terrorism and extremism and the perpetrators of such heinous crime would be brought to justice. In a major address to the United Nations in New York on Thursday, Zardari said Pakistan's stability was crucial for world security. He said terrorists strike at all nations and called for countries to unite in the battle against extremists. "We must draw a line on their rampage,'" Zardari told the United Nations General Assembly. "We must draw that line in Pakistan.'' "We may be the targets of international terrorism, but we will never succumb to it. Toward that end, we reach out to you and to the entire civilised world." He said terrorism cannot be fought by military means alone. "Fighting it requires political will, popular mobilisation, and a socio-economic strategy that wins the hearts and minds of nations afflicted by it," he said. Posted by: Fred 2008-09-27 |
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