Most Pakistanis Don’t Know What Al-Qaida Is, Says Survey

Posted by University of New Mexico/Talk Radio News Service on October 30, 2009 |

Travis Martinez, University of New Mexico/Talk Radio News Service

The average Pakistani citizen has little to almost no understanding of the al-Qaida network or the Afghan Taliban organization, according to Georgetown University School of Foreign Service Professor Christine Fair.

“Many Pakistanis don’t know what al-Qaida is…Sure enough we went around a room and asked if people knew al-Qaida: Few knew,” said Fair of a survey she conducted in Pakistan earlier this year.

According to Fair, one woman that openly responded to the survey correlated the Taliban and al-Qaida with Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

October 30, 2009
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