Beijing, July 10: Pakistan president Asif Ali Zardari today ruled out handing over the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks to India but said the “non-state actors” who derailed the Indo-Pak rapprochement will “hopefully” be brought to justice in his country.
Talking to CCTV, he also touched issues concerning Pakistan’s domestic front and played down differences with former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.
“I think we will be able to complete our term and survive the political turmoil”.
He hoped that democracy, that has been derailed many times in Pakistan, would eventually evolve with the effort of political forces.
Referring to Pakistan’s operations against the Taliban, he said, “We are fighting last remains of cold war which was crated by the world take on super power of that time. They were in a time capsule. Hopefully we will be out of it soon”.
On the Sino-Pak friendship, he said, the two countries not only succeeded in connecting with each other through the Karakoram highway but also helped each other diplomatically in the past.
–Agencies