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| Terrorist ideology must be defeated: Zardari |
| 2014-11-19 |
| [DAWN] Former president and PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari said here on Monday that defeating the ideology of Death Eaters was necessary to win the battle against militancy, DawnNews reported. Mr Zardari, who was addressing a presser, said the international community woke up too late to combat the menace of militancy. The PPP leader said he had highlighted several times at international forums that the world was losing the war against terrorism. "Terrorism cannot be defeated by simply fighting myrmidons... the mindset has to be defeated as well," he said. Our party, the Pakistain Peoples Party, has sacrificed the most in the fight against terrorism, he said. Speaking about the political situation in Pakistain, he expressed the hope that the current government would complete its five-year tenure. We fought against dictatorship for ten years and for the restoration of democracy. For the first time in Pakistains history a democratic government completed its term, he said. Mr Zardari said he wanted to complete the mission of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... . |
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| Posted by: Paul D 2014-11-19 09:58 |