Pakistanis turn on Taliban, but resent US: poll
Thursday, July 2, 2009
The News International, Pakistan, Thursday, July 02, 2009
WASHINGTON: Public opinion in Pakistan has turned sharply against the Taliban and other Islamist militants but Pakistanis still do not trust the United States and President Barack Obama, a poll showed on Wednesday.
The WorldPublicOpinion.org poll, conducted last month as Pakistan’s Army fought the Taliban in the Swat Valley, found that most Pakistanis see the Pakistani Taliban and al-Qaeda as a critical threat to the nuclear-armed country. Those Pakistanis who view Islamist militants and local Taliban as a critical threat to their country rose to 81 per cent, up from 34 per cent in a similar poll in late 2007, the University of Maryland polling project found. Respondents who described al-Qaeda’s activities as a critical threat to Pakistan rose 41 percentage points to 82 per cent in the same period. The findings were based on face-to-face interviews of 1,000 adults in the Urdu language across Pakistan from May 17-28.
WASHINGTON: Public opinion in Pakistan has turned sharply against the Taliban and other Islamist militants but Pakistanis still do not trust the United States and President Barack Obama, a poll showed on Wednesday.
The WorldPublicOpinion.org poll, conducted last month as Pakistan’s Army fought the Taliban in the Swat Valley, found that most Pakistanis see the Pakistani Taliban and al-Qaeda as a critical threat to the nuclear-armed country. Those Pakistanis who view Islamist militants and local Taliban as a critical threat to their country rose to 81 per cent, up from 34 per cent in a similar poll in late 2007, the University of Maryland polling project found. Respondents who described al-Qaeda’s activities as a critical threat to Pakistan rose 41 percentage points to 82 per cent in the same period. The findings were based on face-to-face interviews of 1,000 adults in the Urdu language across Pakistan from May 17-28.
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