Pakistan is ‘’paying heavily’’ for its mistakes in the 1970s when it started mixing religion with politics and promoted extremism, former British prime minister Tony Blair said on Thursday.
“I think Pakistan is paying a heavy price for the mistakes of 1970s by linking religion with politics and developing religious schools which are, in some cases, dangerous sources of extremism,” Blair told CNN-IBN. The former British prime minister was responding to queries relating to the role of the ISI in spreading terrorism and its links with the Haqqani group in Afghanistan. Asked if the US, after eliminating Osama bin laden, should also go after the Haqqani faction, Blair said it was something which the Americans had to decide.
“The trouble with these groups is that there is no way to use them wisely. On these issues like Pakistan might have to say about its influence in Afghanistan vis-à-vis India’s influence there, there will be nothing good out of supporting these groups,” he said. “If the ISI is engaged in such activities, in the end it will not merely affect the US, the UK, Afghanistan or India, it poisons the atmosphere in Pakistan also,” Blair said.
He said if there was any link between the ISI and terror groups such as the Haqqani network and the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, “it is a mistake”. Blair said there was a need to engage “modern and open-minded” Pakistanis who are involved in a struggle against the extremists. “We have to see how we can engage elements in Pakistan who believe that this was a mistake. The best way is to allow Pakistan to change and evolve and there are a lot of decent people in Pakistan,” he said.
Just look at him. He says, we mixed religion with politics. One wonders at the enormous capacity of Anglo-American race to lie. They are the ones who prepared this mixture during their campaign against Soviet invasion of Pakistan. With people like Blair & Bush, lying is a way of life. Another pertinent example is the bogey created in connection with WMDs in Iraq. Now, even when it has been proved that it was concocted, both of them are moving about as free citizens. Instead, they should have been facing trial as war criminals. 9/11 only killed less than 3,000 people. Bush & Blair have killed hundreds of thousands.
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