By NNN-PTI,
London : Highligting the need for launching “a new dialogue” to tackle terrorism, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said he would seek an international conference on the issue at the UN General Assembly later this month.
“Whatever medicine we’ve been using it hasn’t ended the poison, it’s made it worse,” Zardari was quoted as saying by ‘The Sunday Times’ ahead of his visit here beginning today.
It was earlier supposed to be a private visit to take his Daughter Bakhtawar to Edinburgh University to begin her degree court. But now, he will hold meetings with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Foreign Secretary David Miliband.
Zardari told the newspaper recently that he felt Pakistan was being blamed for NATO’s failure in Afghanistan. “Okay, we’re really bad and done everything wrong this side of the border, but has NATO been able to control the situation with all its soldiers or come up with a proper Afghan army as yet?” “I’m not pointing fingers, just saying we’ve all come short of expectations,” he was quoted as saying.
At the UN General Assembly later this month in New York, Zardari said he would call for an international conference on the issue.
Zardari said “if the problem was two on a scale of one to ten, now it’s nine. I’m proposing to the world that we players should all get together and start a new dialogue. There needs to be trust.”