Pakistan blames West for terrorism
Writing this weekend in the News, Benazir Bhutto, the former Pakistani Prime Minister, recalls that General Zia-ul-Haq, who toppled her father's regime in a coup in the 1970s, played a key role in assisting the US and the Mujahadeen to defeat the Soviet-backed Afghan government.
'This alliance not only brought modern weapons and technology to the Mujahadeen but converted my homeland from a peaceful nation into a violent society of Kalashnikov weapons, heroin addiction and a radicalised interpretation of Islam,' she stated.
Thus, she suggests, were the seeds of the current harvest sown.
'You have created a monster and now you don't know what to do with it,' said Senator Asfundyar Wali, the Awami National Party senator who was jailed at the age of 14 for his political beliefs and has been arrested many times since. 'The war against the Soviet Union turned refugees into jihadis.'
Throughout that war, the CIA channelled an estimated US$3bn into the hands of the Afghan resistance groups and their foreign fellow-fighters
[General Zia-ul-Haq brutally ruled Pakistan under martial law for more than a decade before he died when his plane exploded in mysterious circumstances on 17 August 1988, killing him, along with five generals and the American ambassador]
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