Pakistan's president blames West for extremism

Pakistan’s President Gen Pervez Musharraf today blamed the West for breeding terrorism in his country by bringing in thousands of mujahedeen to fight the Soviets in neighbouring Afghanistan then leaving Pakistan alone a decade later to face the armed warriors.

Musharraf told the European Parliament’s foreign affairs committee Pakistan is not the intolerant, extremist country often portrayed by the West, and terrorism and extremism are not inherent to Pakistani society.