Tony Blair's Statement
By Dr. Ghayur Ayub
London, UK
According to Tony Blair, as reported in press, Pakistan is paying a heavy price for mistakes of 1970s when it developed religious schools which became the source of extremism. I don't know which history books Mr. Blair had been reading but the facts on the ground were different. The fact is that the religious schools mushroomed in the 1980s with the active support of the UK and the US. Pakistan is paying a price because in the 1970s it resisted American and UK pressure not to proceed with nuclear technology.
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