Zardari: We Underestimated Taliban Threat -- CBS 60 Minutes
Pakistan's President Tells 60 Minutes The Country Is In A Battle To Survive
(CBS) Pakistan's new president, Asif Ali Zardari, says his nuclear-armed government is in a battle to survive against the growing threat of the Taliban, which his country failed to take strong action against earlier.
Now the Muslim militant group has extended its presence from the tribal borderlands inland to larger cities, Zardari tells 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft in an interview to be broadcast this Sunday, Feb. 15, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
"[The Taliban] do have a presence in huge amounts of land in our side. Yes, that is the fact," says Zardari. Once confined to the county's border area with Afghanistan, where they carried out strikes against U.S. troops over the border, the Taliban have extended their influence in Pakistan inland to cities like Peshawar and the Swat Valley.
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My Comment: This interview is so revealing of the Pakistani leadership. Say one thing to the West .... do something else at home. Say that the Taliban is a threat .... but put your army on the Indian border. Do what I say .... not what I do.