Congress welcomes Zardari’s admission on terrorism
July 9th, 2009 - 10:22 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, July 9 (IANS) India’s ruling Congress party Thursday welcomed Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari’s admission that terrorism was “created and nurtured” by Islamabad “as a policy to achieve some short-term tactical objectives”.
The party demanded the terror camps in that country should be destroyed with the same honesty.
“The Pakistan president has admitted with honesty that the extremists were created and nurtured as a short-term policy. The same honesty should be shown in dismantling the terror camps in the country,” Congress spokesperson Shakeel Ahmad told reporters.
During an interactive session with former bureaucrats in Islamabad on Tuesday night, Zardari said: “Let us be truthful to ourselves and make a candid admission of the realities… Militancy and extremism emerged on the national scene and challenged the state not because the civil bureaucracy was weakened and demoralised, but because they were deliberately created and nurtured as a policy to achieve some short-term tactical objectives.”
“The terrorists of today were the heroes of yesteryear until 9/11 (terrorist attack on America) brought things into a new light,” Zardari added.
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