President Asif Ali Ten PercentZardari
... husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in ...
declared Tuesday before the United Nations
...an international organization whose stated aims of facilitating interational security involves making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country...
that his country had suffered enough in its fight against jihad boy terror and should not be asked to do more.
"No country and no people have suffered more in the epic struggle against terrorism than Pakistain," he insisted.
"To those who say we have not done enough, I say in all humility: Please do not insult the memory of our dead, and the pain of our living. Do not ask of my people what no one has ever asked of any other peoples," he said.
"Do not demonise the innocent women and kiddies of Pakistain. And please, stop this refrain to 'do more'."
Beginning his address to the UN General Assembly with a denunciation of the recent American-made movie trailer and French cartoons that insulted the Mohammedan prophet Mohammed, he demanded that such material be banned worldwide.
Then, speaking next to a photograph of his late wife - Pak politician 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 was murdered by Islamic snuffies - he set about defending the Pak people's record in the war on violent extremism.
Zardari said regular US drone strikes against targets in his country made his task of selling the fight against terror to his people harder, as did the massive increase in Afghan drug exports since the US-led invasion.
"There are a lot of questions that are asked of Pakistain these days," he said, his voice rising as he warmed to his theme.
"I am not here to answer questions about Pakistain. The people of Pakistain have already answered them. The politicians of Pakistain have answered them. The soldiers of Pakistain have answered them," he declared.
"We have lost over 7,000 Pak soldiers and coppers, and over 37,000 civilians," he added. "And I need not remind my friends here today, that I bear a personal scar."
Pakistain has long been seen as a safe haven for myriad Islamist gangs, whether Taliban fighting along the Afghan border, domestic bully boyz or Kashmiri Mohammedans bent on capturing Indian-held territory.
Suspicions that the government and military were turning a blind eye to some groups came to a head in May last year when US commandos launched a raid deep into Pak territory and killed Al-Qaeda kingpin the late Osama bin Laden
... who is currently warming his feet by the fire with Hitler and Himmler...
But Zardari stoutly defended his government's record, insisting Pakistain's problems stemmed from decades of military rule, when Pakistain was left to cope with an influx of Afghan refugees and the West courted its dictators.
"I remember the red carpet that was rolled out for all the dictators," he said. "These dictators and their regimes are responsible for suffocating and throttling Pakistain, Pakistain's institutions and Pak democracy.
"I remember the jailing of Pakistain's elected leaders. I remember the 12 years I myself spent in prison. And I remember the billions provided by the international community to support those dictatorships," he said.
"My country's social fabric, its very character has been altered. Our condition today is a product of dictatorships."
Zardari's government has often been accused in the West of not doing enough to fight armed extremism, and since bin Laden was found - in a garrison town near the capital - some in Washington have called for aid to be cut.