Author: NDTV Correspondent
Publication: NDTV.com
Date: October 6, 2008
URL: http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080067865
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zaradri has backtracked
on his comments describing militants operating in India as 'terrorists'.
The government clarified Zardari's stand in
an official statement.
"The President has made it very clear
that the just cause of Kashmir and its struggle for self-determination has
been a consistent central position of the PPP for forty years now. There is
no change in that policy. He has never called the legitimate aspirations of
Kashmiris an expression of terrorism, nor has he undermined the sufferings
of the Kashmiri people. All other statements about India were in context of
our current bilateral relations," said the statement.
Zardari has drawn flak in his own country
following his comments in an interview in Wall Street Journal. Nawaz Sharif's
party, PML-N, has taken a strong stance against Zardari's remarks.
