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Petraeus visits Pakistan for security talks
 [Dawn] US general David Petraeus on Monday visited Pakistain and held talks with its army chief on ways to bolster regional security, the US embassy said in a statement."Gen. David H. Petraeus, Commander of the NATO International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, visited Pakistain today to meet with Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, ... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI... Pakistain's Chief of Army Staff," the embassy said. "They discussed topics of mutual interest and ways to improve regional security," it said in a statement. This is Petraeus' sixth visit to Pakistain as the NATO ISAF commander, it said. "He has long-established relationships with General Kayani and the Pak military from his time as the US Central Command commander," the statement said, adding that his last visit to Pakistain was January 31, 2011. On Saturday Kayani said his forces had inflicted deep wounds on the rebellion after the United States had criticised the country's efforts to quell Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked bully boyz holed-up in its tribal belt. "The terrorists' backbone has been broken and God willing we will soon prevail," Kayani said in a speech at a passing-out parade at the Pakistain Military Academy in northwestern garrison town of Abbottabad. The White House this month criticised Pakistain's efforts to defeat the Taliban in its border regions with Afghanistan, in a report immediately rejected by Islamabad. The chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, subsequently accused Pakistain's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency of having ties with the Afghan Taliban in the northwestern tribal belt. Posted by: Fred 2011-04-26 |
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