Militants to exploit Pakistan crisis?
Fri Aug 20, 2010 4:40AM

President Asif Ali Zardari and US Senator John Kerry address a joint press conference in Rawalpindi.
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari warns that people in flooded areas could fall prey to militants as survivors have not received enough aid to feed themselves.


“We are giving them everything we've got. There is a possibility that some negative forces would exploit this situation. For example, militants can take orphaned children and put them in terror training camps,” Zardari said on Thursday. He made the comments at a joint press conference with US Sen. John Kerry at the Chaklala Airbase in Rawalpindi. The head of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee had earlier toured flooded areas in Pakistan's Punjab province.

“The world is slowly and gradually realizing that it is not a one-day job, it is not a one-country issue, it is a huge problem and it is a huge catastrophe,” the Pakistani president added. “I think the world is standing with us.”

Kerry also hinted that militants might make use of the flood for their purposes and said, “None of us wants to see this crisis to provide an opportunity or an excuse for people who want to exploit the misfortune of others for political or ideological purposes.”

Flooding triggered by monsoon rains has wiped out villages, farmland and infrastructure, ravaging an area the size of England.

About 20 million people have been affected and more than 1,400 deaths have been confirmed. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) says over 650,000 homeless families are still without basic shelter.


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