President Asif Ali Zardari insisted on Monday that there was no economic meltdown looming in Pakistan, but also defended turning to the IMF.
“I think it’s a difficult pill, but one has to take medicine to get better,” he said. He said Pakistan was succeeding in its fight against extremists even though the campaign was being hampered by US missile strikes in the region.
Zardari told The Associated Press in an interview that he expected US President-elect Barack Obama to take a “new look” at Pakistan’s objections to the missile attacks on suspected al-Qaeda and Taliban targets. He was not sure that if Obama would halt them.
“I think from where it was when we took over, we are in a much better place,” said President Zardari about the military operation in the Bajur tribal region. “We feel that the strikes are an intrusion on our sovereignty, which are not appreciated by the people at large, and the first aspect of this war is to win the hearts and mind of the people,” Zardari said.
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