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Please don't attack us: Zardari tells India |
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By: Agencies |
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Date:
2008-12-02 |
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Place: Islamabad |
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Pak prez says militants had the power to precipitate a war
Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari made an urgent appeal to India yesterday not to punish his country for the terror unleashed on Mumbai last week, warning that militants had the power to precipitate a war in the region.
As the government in New Delhi faced mounting domestic recriminations after the three-day terrorist rampage in Mumbai, Zardari urged Manmohan Singh, India's prime minister, to resist striking out at his government should investigations show that Pakistani militant groups were responsible for the attacks.
Pakistan's president warned that provocation by rogue "non-state actors" posed the danger of a return to war between the nuclear-armed neighbours.
"Even if the militants are linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba, who do you think we are fighting?" asked Zardari, whose country is battling al-Qaeda and Taliban militants on its shared border with Afghanistan.
"We live in troubled times where non-state actors have taken us to war before, whether it is the case of those who perpetrated 9/11 or contributed to the escalation of the situation in Iraq," said Zardari.
"Now, events in Mumbai tell us that there are ongoing efforts to carry out copycat attacks by militants. We must all stand together to fight out this menace." |
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