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Zardari says NATO forces losing war against Taliban | In an interview given to the French daily Le Monde, Pakistan
President Asif Ali Zardari has said that NATO forces are losing the battle against the Taliban because they are failing to win the hearts and minds of the people of Afghanistan. “The international community, to which Pakistan belongs, is losing
the war against the Taliban. This is above all because we have lost the battle
to win hearts and minds,” Zardari told Le Monde. He further said that coalition
forces have underestimated the situation on ground” in Afghanistan . He also reiterated
Pakistan commitment to take the battle to the militants in the region till they
were eliminated or they agreed to put down their arms. As far the Taliban was
concerned, the Pakistan president said that he did not foresee them regaining
power after having lost it in October 2001. He also confirmed that he is taking
British Prime Minister David Cameron’s statement on Pakistan secretly promoting
violent extremism seriously, and would ask for an explanation and clarification
from London . “The war against terrorism must unite us and not oppose us. I will
explain face to face that it is my country that is paying the highest price in
human life for this war,” he told Le Monde. |
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