Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

By Ghulam Asghar Khan
The Frontier Post
Sep. 25, 2008
“President Zardari, who had just given his first major address as the head of state, on fighting the Taliban and al-Qaeda, was probably the target of Saturday’s attack,” said Gartenstein Ross, the vice-president for research at the Foundation for Defence of Democracies. “He was expected to attend the iftar dinner at Marriot,” said Mr. Ross. “Think of the symbolic value if they were able to kill him after his first address as president of Pakistan. The symbolic effect of the attack on the same day would have been devastating.”