ISLAMABAD: Former president Asif Ali Zardari on Friday strongly condemned a barbaric terrorist attack in Nice, France on Bastille Day celebrations that killed over 84 innocent men, women and children, saying that the people of Pakistan shared grief and sorrow of the victims’ families. “No words are strong enough to denounce barbarity of the crime and no words are powerful enough to extricate the grief-stricken families from the shock of a loss so overwhelming,” he said in a statement on Friday. “Our thoughts and prayers are with victims and their families,” said the former president. “The rising incidents of terror attacks across geographical boundaries and ethnic and religious divides underlines once again the global nature of the problem and calls for putting our heads together to find a collective solution,” he said. “A long-term solution to fighting militancy has to be based on fighting the mindset that breeds extremism,” he underlined. “It is unfortunate that in our own country we have ignored the promises made in the National Action Plan (NAP) on reforming education and curriculum. The NAP indeed was ridiculed when public funds in Khyber Pakhtunkwa (KP) were recently diverted to a seminary known for sympathies with militants and extremists,” he maintained. “The need for implementing education and curriculum related reforms promised in the National Action Plan (NAP) has never been as great as it is today,” he added.