President Asif Ali Zardari

LONDON, Sept 18 (APP): President Asif Ali Zardari has said that the extremists and militants were created decades ago by a deliberate policy to employ religious fanaticism for the achievement of certain strategic objectives. The President made this comment in his wide ranging address and discourse with British intelligentsia gathered at London's International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) - a prestigious and one of the high profile Think Tanks, a day after he arrived in the British capital from Dubai.

Khurram Gardezi