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Militants, extremists created deliberately: Zardari
[Geo News] President Asif Ali Zardari has said that the extremists and militants were created decades ago by a deliberate policy to employ religious fanaticism for the achievement of certain strategic objectives.
| Yes, we know, your excellent presidentness. Your wife had a little something to do with that, as I recall. |
President made this comment in his wide ranging address and discourse with British intelligentsia gathered at London's International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) - a prestigious and one of the high profile Think Tanks, a day after he arrived in the British capital from Dubai.
| Very impressive people, all listening spellbound to the the coruscating brilliance of the president of Pakistan, Mr. Ten Percent himself. Once wonders if he borrowed President Obama's teleprompter. |
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Spokesman to the President Farhatullah Babar, Secretary General to the President Salman Farooqi, Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Aseefa Bhutto Zardari, Sanam Bhutto, Pakistan High Commissioner to UK Wajid Shamsul Hassan, writers, intellectuals and diplomats also attended.
Militants and militancy were not created in a vacuum, the President said adding, they have been the product of a deliberate policy to fight the rival ideology.
| Really? What ideology might that be, pray tell? |
The free world adopted a novel strategy that was based on the exploitation of religion to motivate Muslims around the world to wage jehad, stated President Zardari.
| Of course Muslims have never waged jehad without outside exploitation. The very idea is unthinkable in the languages Muslims speak. Just look it up in the dictionary and you'll see it's so. |
To drive home the point the President reminded the audience Afghan Jehadi leaders were described as "Moral equivalents of George Washington."
President Zardari further said that the strategy may have worked well but some serious mistakes were also made as the world abandoned Afghanistan in a hurry and no thought was given to its stability after the withdrawal of foreign forces.
| Does he mean the Soviets or the international coalition there now? |
Posted by: Fred 2009-09-19 |
