Pakistan's President Asif Zardari has broken with decades of strategic policy by declaring the military will turn its guns on extremist groups it formerly supported as proxy forces in its battles with India. Photo: EPA From UPI:
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 10 (UPI) -- Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari reportedly admitted this week that his country created extremist groups to achieve short-term tactical objectives.
The statement made Tuesday before a group of retired bureaucrats in Islamabad comes only days after Zardari's June 22 op-ed piece in The Washington Post saying: "If the Taliban and al-Qaida are allowed to triumph in our region, their destabilizing alliance will spread across the continents."
In Tuesday's comments in Islamabad, Zardari said the extremist groups did not come about because of government weakness but were deliberately "created and nurtured" as a policy to achieve some short-term tactical objectives, London's Daily Telegraph reported.
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My Comment: They should be surprised .... Pakistan's media, educational system, and religious leaders have been told (and towing) a different line for years. They have been told lies .... and are now having trouble digesting what must be very disturbing information. Will they accept this "new information" .... I doubt it, but it is a start for the next generation that is coming up.
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