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Pakistan should target groups that attack its neighbors: US
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The United States has called on Pakistain to target all bully boy groups including those targeting the country’s neighbors.Deputy spokesperson for the State Department, Mark Toner, hailed Pakistain’s efforts regarding the ongoing military operations in the tribal regions of the country. Admitting the country has suffered greatly from the menace of terrorism, Toner, said "We believe that Pakistain is taking steps to address terrorist violence, particularly focused on groups that threaten Paks’ ‐ Pakistain’s stability." Toner further added "They have made progress shutting down terrorist safe havens. They’ve restored government control in many parts of Pakistain that have been used as terrorist safe havens for many years. And these are important, and they’re meaningful steps for Pakistain to have made. And they’ve also come at a cost, and that cost is in ‐ certainly in Pak lives." However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... he said "At the same time ‐ and we’ve made this point before ‐ we’ve been very clear that Pakistain must target all bully boy groups, including those that target Pakistain’s neighbors, and close all safe havens. And so in this regard we certainly welcome comments by General Raheel Sharif ..Pak chief of army staff, meaning he pulls the strings on the Nawaz Sharif puppet to make it dance and sing and not do much at all.... ’s ‐ Sharif, rather, on July 6, when he directed Pak military commanders, intelligence agencies, and law enforcement agencies to take concrete measures to deny any bully boy groups safe haven or the use of Pak soil to launch terrorist attacks in Afghanistan." The remarks by Toner comes as the Afghan officials believe the leadership councils of the Afghan bully boy groups, including the Taliban group and the notorious Haqqani terrorist network has remained intact despite the ongoing military operations by Pakistain. The Afghan officials have long been raising concerns regarding the presence of the Taliban group and Haqqani network  leadership councils in Pakistain.They are saying that the two groups are having leadership councils based in both Quetta and Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. cities of Pakistain from where they launch attacks in Afghanistan. Posted by: Fred 2016-07-17 |
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