President General Pervez Musharraf said on Thursday Pakistan would not keep any suspected foreign terrorists on its soil and would return them to their country of origin. âPakistan has absolutely zero interest in keeping any foreign national, in fact, when we catch any non-Pakistani suspect terrorist we want to send him out as soon as possible,â he told reporters.
| "I mean, it ain't like we don't have enough of these goobers of our own!" |
He said there were two problems in sending arrested terrorists to their respective countries. First, that the country of origin doesnât want them back, and second, it is often hard to ascertain their nationality. âTherefore, those who do not give their identity, land in a third country,â he said.
| "Either Guantanamo or Kashmir, depending on how we're feeling at the moment..." |
He promised that Pakistan would hand over any suspected Algerian terrorist caught in Pakistan to the Algerian government. âWe will keep fighting terrorism to bring stability to our respective countries,â he said. Gen Musharraf held a meeting with Algerian President Abdulaziz Bouteflika where they discussed bilateral economic and trade ties, terrorism, Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan-India relations and expressed âcomplete consonance of viewsâ, the Pakistani president said.
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Mr Bouteflika called on the international community to make the same old tired distinction distinguish between terrorism and liberation movements. âIt is indeed important to make a clear-cut distinction between terrorist acts that we must firmly condemn, and a liberation struggle which represents for peoples the last resort to recover their legitimate rights.â
| He still doesn't get it. It's terrorism in Algeria, freedom struggle anywhere else... |
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