Pakistani president Asif Zardari admits creating terrorist groups
Telegraph.co.uk
Pakistani president Asif Zardari admits creating terrorist groups
By Dean Nelson, South Asia Editor
Published: 5:49PM BST 08 Jul 2009
Asif Zardari told a meeting of former senior civil servants in Islamabad, it was time to be honest about their deployment.
"Let us be truthful to ourselves and make a candid admission of the realities," he said. "The terrorists of today were the heroes of yesteryears until 9/11 occurred and they began to haunt us as well."
These groups were not thrown up because of government weakness, but as a matter of policy. He said they were deliberately "created and nurtured" as a policy to achieve some short-term tactical objectives.
His comments amount to an admission that Pakistan trained Islamic terrorists to launch attacks on India as part of its long war over its claim on Kashmir.
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Do these people deserve to know how and why their loved ones were murdered? Do we deserve to know how and why 9/11 happened?
Shouldn't this be on the front page?
Doesn't get much more relevant than this, even if the precise connection to 911 isn't clear (unless we can infer that Zardari is referring to Al Queda and the standard US Government story). However, Zardari using the word "terrorist" implies more than just killing Russian and Afghan soldiers.
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