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Zardari rubbishes reports over ISI backing Taliban | While rubbishing media reports of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) supporting the Taliban, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said that Islamabad remains committed to fight against terrorism. "I don't think anybody doubts our intentions on this
war," Zardari said in an interview with BBC Newsnight. Zardari, who claimed of
having a "positive" meeting with British Prime Minister David Cameron, dismissed
reports regarding the ISI backing the Taliban as "hearsay and chatter". He also
denied claims that the ISI chief, Ahmed Shuja Pasha, was also supposed to join
him on his visit to the UK , saying: "He was not supposed to join me." The President
said that Islamabad has a "blunt edge" in the ongoing war against terrorism, and
stressed that his country had no role in promoting extremism. " Pakistan has more
of the blunt edge of this battle than anyone else. I've always maintained terrorism
passes through Pakistan , it doesn't evolve in Pakistan ," Zardari said. "We have
lost more soldiers than the world put together. I have lost my wife, we have lost
workers, my personal friends... so I don't think anybody doubts our intentions
on this war, but there can always be weaknesses which need to be strengthened,"
he added. Zardari has received tremendous flak for going ahead with his plans
of visiting London while millions of people back home were struggling to cope
with one of the worst floods in human memory, but the President said he is being
kept up to date with the situation, and added that it was the responsibility of
the Prime Minister, who was the country's "chief executive" to look after relief
and rescue work. |
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