{"id":38743,"date":"2013-06-10T18:55:32","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T15:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=38743"},"modified":"2013-06-10T18:55:32","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T15:55:32","slug":"pakistan-determined-to-root-out-militancy-president-38743","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/pakistan-determined-to-root-out-militancy-president-38743\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan determined to root out militancy: President"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_38745\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38745\" style=\"width: 248px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38745\" alt=\"Pakistan president Asif Ali Zardari: File Pic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Zardari-Pakistan-Nationalturk-10.jpg\" width=\"248\" height=\"203\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38745\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pakistan president Asif Ali Zardari: File Pic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>Pakistan president Asif Ali Zardari Monday said Pakistan was determined to root out militancy from the country.<\/h1>\n<p>Islamabad, June 10\/Nationalturk- Sending a strong message to militant groups like Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Pakistan president Asif Ali Zardari Monday said Pakistan government was determined to root out militancy from the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPakistan was determined to root out militancy as it threatened all countries in the region and indeed the whole world,\u201d Zardari said in his address to joint sitting of parliament.<\/p>\n<p>It was his historic sixth address to the joint session of Parliament. He became the first civilian president to address the joint sitting of parliament for 6th year.<\/p>\n<p>While congratulating the newly elected members of parliament, Zardari praised people of Pakistan for demonstrating courage and participating in the elections despite terror threats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople have spoken through their vote. Their voice has been heard and demonstrated by the smooth transition of power,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h2>Militancy, extremism poses threat to country<\/h2>\n<p>Zardari said the issue of militancy, extremism and terrorism poses the largest threat to national security. \u201cThe country stands united to tackle this. We are willing to make peace with those, who renounce violence but are also ready to take action against those who challenge the writ of the state\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Calling for sincere and collective efforts, he said the country can fight militancy better, through dialogue and cooperation rather than doubting each other.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur armed forces, para military forces, police and the citizens have made great sacrifices in fighting militancy,\u201d he said adding nation was proud of their sacrifices and categorically stated their sacrifices would not go waste.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to US drone strikes, Pakistan president said nobody would be allowed to violate Pakistan\u2019s sovereignty and it should be protected at all costs.<\/p>\n<p>Terming drone attacks serious violation of sovereignty and international law, he said \u201cThey are also counterproductive and are not acceptable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Faiz Ahmad \/ NationalTurk Pakistan News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan president Asif Ali Zardari Monday said Pakistan was determined to root out militancy from the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,1,118,85,101,14],"tags":[13980,46452,44120,53194,38683,47554,636,3919,31422,53195,53193,43131,51363,44597,42251,21756],"class_list":["post-38743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-media-news","category-politics","category-world","tag-asif-ali-zardari","tag-determined","tag-extremism","tag-joint-sitting-of-parliament","tag-militancy","tag-militant-groups","tag-pakistan","tag-pakistan-government","tag-pakistan-president","tag-pose","tag-root-out-militancy","tag-tehreek-e-taliban-pakistan","tag-terror-threats","tag-threat","tag-ttp","tag-us-drone-attacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}