Intl community should help Pakistan in war on terror: Zardari

President Asif Ali Zardari said the international community needs to recognize the economic problems of Pakistan created by the war against militancy and should step forward to address them in order to pursue the fight against militancy to its logical conclusion. He was talking to David Lipton, Senior Director for International Economics of the US National Security Council who called on him at the Presidency. President Zardari said Pakistan had to rebuild its economic infrastructure damaged during the war against militancy, revive the closed industrial units, rehabilitate the over 2 million internally displaced persons, strengthen its civilian law enforcing agencies and undertake a massive programme for increasing literacy to help combat militancy. The President said the revival of closed industrial units also needed new power plants and hydel power projects. He said rental power plants would come up on line by the end of this year. In addition Pakistan was trying to build about a dozen small hydel power plants to overcome power shortage. The country also needed access to international markets for its product so as to generate jobs in the country, the President said.