Zardari asks India to 'resist striking out at his government'- Hindustan Times

Zardari asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to "resist striking out at his (Pakistan's) government should investigations show that Pakistani militant groups were responsible for the attacks", the Financial Times reported.

The president warned that provocation by rogue "non-state actors" posed the danger of a return to war between the nuclear-armed neighbours.

"Even if the militants are linked to Lashker-e-Taiba, who do you think we are fighting?" Zardari told the daily, referring to Pakistan's operations against Al-Qaeda and Taliban on the border with Afghanistan. (via Zardari asks India to 'resist striking out at his government'- Hindustan Times)

Zardari is the first Pakistani ...

Zardari is the first Pakistani leader who makes sense in the last few decades. While others (Pakistani and Indian leaders) have made pious declarations of peace, it has been Zardari who underpinned these declarations with logic. It is the overwhelming logic which appeals to me.

The Pakistan nation is actually 5 parts - The army, the ISI, the politicians, the 22 families and then there are the rest. No one in Pakistan talks to anyone. Each has contempt for the other four. And all five have separate agenda.

In such a situation, a lone Zardari may not be enough for Pakistan - or India.