At the same time, President Asif Ali Zardari warned that militants were trying to exploit the floods to promote their agendas. "Like they would take the babies who have been made orphans and take them to their camps and train them as the terrorists of tomorrow," he told a joint press conference with the visiting US Senator, John Kerry.
President Zardari was echoing the US stance as Senator Kerry made clear that the objective of the US aid is humanitarian but "obviously there is a national security interest. We do not want additional jihadis, extremists, coming out of a crisis."
What this means? The US aid effort is not motivated by concern for the estimated 20 million Pakistanis impacted by the floods but is driven by the need to prop up the client government of President Asif Ali Zardari, on which the US relies to wage a proxy war on militants in Pakistan's northern areas bordering Afghanistan.
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