Zardari asks people to join hands against militancy, extremism

The President said militants and extremists wanted to destroy the country and the way of life of the people in the name of religion.

"They are blowing up schools, butchering innocent people, killing doctors for administering polio drops, closing down businesses and digging out the dead and the buried from their graves to impose upon us their bigoted world view," he said.

He hoped the country will be able to celebrate her next birth anniversary in a "changed environment where terrorism and extremism would have been eliminated".