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Pak not doing enough to deter attacks on US soldiers
Washington, Nov 19: Pakistan is not doing enough to deter militant attacks on US soldiers in Afghanistan from its soil, the new American ambasador to Kabul, Zalmay Khalilzad, said.
Washington, Nov 19: Pakistan is not doing enough
to deter militant attacks on US soldiers in Afghanistan from
its soil, the new American ambasador to Kabul, Zalmay
Khalilzad, said.
There are Taliban leaders and other people "that are
using Pakistani territory to come across and carry out attacks
in Afghanistan," Khalilzad said yesterday.
"The level of activity has increased in recent weeks and months.... We do not want Pakistan to be a sanctuary ... We look to Pakistan to do more on this. And we will work with the Pakistanis on this," he said.
Khalilzad, however, noted that Pakistan is an ally and has been helpful in arresting al-Qaeda leaders and so "the United States would give Pakistan more assistance in return for more cooperation." President George W. Bush, during his meeting with his Pakistani counterpart Pervez Musharraf at Camp David in June, agreed to a five-year military and economic aid package tied to annual reviews of Pakistan's cooperation in the war on terrorism, he noted.
Khalilzad, who was born in Mazar-e-Sharif in Afghanistan and is currently a senior official in the National Security Council, gave the administration's bleakest assessment yet of security conditions in Afghanistan, saying that a regrouping of the Taliban and al-Qaeda, increased drug trafficking and common criminals are hampering President Hamid Karzai and the transition to democracy. Bureau Report
"The level of activity has increased in recent weeks and months.... We do not want Pakistan to be a sanctuary ... We look to Pakistan to do more on this. And we will work with the Pakistanis on this," he said.
Khalilzad, however, noted that Pakistan is an ally and has been helpful in arresting al-Qaeda leaders and so "the United States would give Pakistan more assistance in return for more cooperation." President George W. Bush, during his meeting with his Pakistani counterpart Pervez Musharraf at Camp David in June, agreed to a five-year military and economic aid package tied to annual reviews of Pakistan's cooperation in the war on terrorism, he noted.
Khalilzad, who was born in Mazar-e-Sharif in Afghanistan and is currently a senior official in the National Security Council, gave the administration's bleakest assessment yet of security conditions in Afghanistan, saying that a regrouping of the Taliban and al-Qaeda, increased drug trafficking and common criminals are hampering President Hamid Karzai and the transition to democracy. Bureau Report