President Asif Ali Ten PercentZardari
... husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in ...
said on Friday the efforts were likely to end in failure.
Speaking at the concluding session of the National Conference on Inter-faith Harmony organised by Ministry of National Harmony at the presidency, he said he had been pleading with world leaders that the manner in which the problem was being addressed was wrong.
Apparently opposing the use of force as the sole means of tackling the menace, President Zardari remarked: "We believe in 'tolerant Islam' and have to counter those who believe in hate with peaceful efforts."
Referring to the fight against terrorism in Afghanistan, the president said that even three decades of war in the country would not bring peace there. "And Pakistain is affected particularly badly by the turmoil in Afghanistan."
There was a time, he said, when no one in Pakistain thought of blowing himself up because "Islam was against suicide".People lived in peace and harmony and there were no sectarian issues. "But then the global politics changed and religion was used as a weapon of war."
The world had yet to realise fully the dangerous consequences of using religion and faith as a weapon of war, Mr Zardari said.
The world needed to adopt peaceful means to eliminate the menace of extremism and terrorism, he said.
The president also recalled the words of Benazir Bhutto
... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in...
who told former American president George Bush during a conversation that "a Frankenstein is being created to defeat the rival ideology".
Mr Zardari said it was disturbing to see that values like tolerance and harmony were fast eroding. "Extremism is not confined to one religion or country. It is growing across the world," he remarked.
"We must act before rationality is completely destroyed," he added.