Pakistan President Asif Ali Zaradri has backtracked on his comments describing militants operating in India as ‘terrorists’. The government clarified Zardari’s stand in an official statement.

“The President has made it very clear that the just cause of Kashmir and its struggle for self-determination has been a consistent central position of the PPP for forty years now. There is no change in that policy. He has never called the legitimate aspirations of Kashmiris an expression of terrorism, nor has he undermined the sufferings of the Kashmiri people. All other statements about India were in context of our current bilateral relations,” said the statement.