PESHAWAR: President Asif Zardari will arrive in Peshawar today (Friday) to discuss a host of issues with the ANP-led NWFP government, including the security situation in Swat and FATA. “We will discuss Swat, law and order and FATA with Zardari,” ANP leader Afrasiab Khattak told Daily Times.
President Asif Ali Zardari has said that non state actors responsible for the Mumbai blasts wanted to dictate their own agenda and rewrite the foreign policies of Pakistan and India which would not be permitted. He was addressing a reception attended by provincial ministers, senior government officials, senators, MNAs, political leaders of ANP, PPP here at Frontier House on Friday night. Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Sherry Rehman and Advisor on Interior Rehman Malik were also present on the occasion.
The President said that fight against terror could be won with the active support of the community and referred to the incidents in Lakki Marwat district where the local population stood against the militants and flushed them out of their area.
President Zardari said that a handful of elements wanted to make the majority hostage and declared the people of the country were brave enough to frustrate their nefarious designs. “We will take our decisions at our own in the national interest”, he said, adding that they will have to surrender as they have no other option with them.
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