Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf made a call to foreign investors yesterday to help his country fight extremism and terrorism by investing and creating more jobs to alleviate poverty. "I say to foreign investors ...contribute indirectly in fighting extremism and terrorism by creating more jobs and alleviating poverty," Musharraf said at the opening of Expo Pakistan 2005 — at the Karachi Expo Center here. "You can help by investing in Pakistan and increasing imports from here," he told delegates at the fair designed to attract foreign investors scared off by violence that has plagued the country since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.| I've got a better idea: you kill all the extremists or chase them out of the country and have them take the fundos with them. Establish a stable secular state. Then people will be willing to invest in Pakland. Nobody wants to put money and resources into a country where its facilities are liable to be blown up, its personnel kidnapped and held for ransom, and its employees shot up because of their religious preferences. You don't want to be anybody's colony, so take charge, dammit! |