Saturday 29 October 2011

Retired Pakistani Interior Minister: Injustice and Poverty Root causes of Terrorism

The International News
 
Interior Minister Lt Gen (retd) Moinuddin Haider on Sunday said that world development is unbalanced despite the IMF and World Bank claims of helping the poor nations and alleviating poverty.

He was speaking at the inauguration ceremony of a TB clinic in the Manora Health Project being run by the Hamdard University Hospital for the denizens of Manora Island.

Moin said: "The IMF and World Bank say they are helping alleviate poverty but we see unbalanced development causing despondency and frustration."

The minister said he had asked foreign journalists in Islamabad to investigate the root causes of terrorism world-wide. He counted inequality, injustice and poverty the root causes of terrorism, besides finding a nexus between poverty and violence responsible for the unrest in the third world Muslim countries.

"With limited employment opportunities one has to work from dawn till dusk," he added, "even after a full day of labour people cannot feed their children adequately and few of their acquaintances do get beyond their means without working, which flares up frustration at mass le [...]



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