Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said religious extremist parties which agitated for his ouster have run out of support as the people has had enough of them and their attempts to drag the nation into a pit of ignorance.
The nation is sick and tired of them, (extremists), and fed up with them, wondering what is going on. They are dragging us into the pit of ignorance, when the nation does not want to fall back into that pit of ignorance, He told the Pakistani media in New York before leaving for home on Tuesday. He said that the people of Pakistan were not extremists nor did they want extremism, adding the extremists played their cards already and had nothing up their sleeve.
He also said that he had spoken firmly with the US President George W Bush during their meeting without mincing words.
“I believe in substance,” He was quoted as saying by the official APP news agency, adding he had made it clear to Bush that Pakistan believed that it had been abandoned and betrayed in the past. Musharraf said Pakistan was a nuclear power and cannot be ignored as it was strategically located at the crossroads of Central Asia, Middle East, and South Asia.
“We cannot be ignored but we have to be positive about ourselves,” He added.
Bureau Report