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Pakistan's president said Monday that the calamitous flooding that is wreaking havoc across his country could foment public anger and embolden Islamist militants, but he expressed confidence that his government would survive the crisis.
Asif Ali Zardari, in a meeting with a small group of foreign journalists, called it the "ideal hope of the radical" that the floods would discredit Pakistan's government, which has been criticized for a slow and muddled response. "One has to fight," he said, against extremist groups that aim to scoop up orphaned children and "create them into robots."See the full content of this document
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Pakistan Defends Response to Flooding
Even before floodwaters submerged one-fifth of Pakistan's territory, Zardari's unpop...
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