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Rice says Pakistan needs to work more against Taliban
Copenhagen News.Net
Friday 25th July, 2008
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has told reporters that Pakistan should do a lot more to prevent Taliban militants launching attacks on Afghanistan.
Speaking in Perth, Australia, where she had stopped for a rest day after talks in Asia, Rice suggested the surge in violence in Afghanistan was strongly related to Taliban militants working out of Pakistan.
She said the violence had its source in the restive tribal areas on the border.
Rice said: 'We understand that the northwest frontier area is difficult, but militants cannot be allowed to organise and engage across the border.'
Pakistan has already resisted messages from the US that its troops should be able to engage Taliban militants on Pakistani land.
Pakistani prime minister, Yousuf Gilani, has suggested he will make peace deals with militants through tribal elders in the northwestern regions of Pakistan.
Next week Prime Minister Gilani will meet US President George Bush in the US.
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Anonymous
07-25-08, 01:24 PM |
Rice says Pakistan needs to work more against Taliban
Madame Rice expects Pakistan to do more. Well Pakistani ISI, it`s feared,
shall do more Talibani attacks in Afghanistan. Now, Afghans think that
United States is hellping Talibani attacks through Pakistan.
Pakistanis get more money, heli-copters and F-16 Jet fighters from
United States and U.K. to fight against his own country-men...Baluchs
but Pashtun Talibans in N.W.F.P have impunity by ISI because their job
is to bleed Afghan Army/NATO forces in Afghanistan.
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