Asserting that US assistance to Pakistan was "not charity", President Asif Ali Zardari said on Wednesday that urgent American aid including modern military equipment was required to help his country defeat extremists which would be also in Washington's interest.
"Give us the tools, and we will get the job done," Zardari said, adding American aid to Pakistan was in US' "long-term, strategic interest".
The president's remarks came while making a case for massive US aid to save Pakistan from the brink of economic
collapse and to make it stable to defeat extremists, as he appealed to Washington to give it necessary tools including
modern military equipment.
In a special opinion piece published in
The Washington Post, Zardari said, "Obama understands that for Pakistan to defeat the extremists, it must be stable." For democracy