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| India-Pakistan |
| Bush wants free and fair elections |
| 2007-08-10 |
| US President George W Bush on Thursday urged President General Pervez Musharraf to hold free and fair elections in Pakistan. "My focus in terms of the domestic scene there is that he have a free and fair election, and that's what we've been talking to him about and hopeful they will," Bush said at a White House news conference, according to a transcript received here from the US Federal News Service. Bush said he and Musharraf had discussed and agreed on the need to go after Al Qaeda and Taliban militants in the Pak-Afghan border region. "I have made it clear to him that I would expect there to be full cooperation in sharing intelligence and I believe we've got good intelligence sharing," he said. He expected "swift action if there's actionable intelligence on high-value targets inside" Pakistan. "We spend a lot of time with the leadership in Pakistan talking about what we will do with actionable intelligence," he said. "Am I confident they (terrorists) will be brought to justice? My answer is, 'Yes I am."' Bush was careful to express respect for Pakistan's sovereignty, following Islamabad's publicly expressed anger over calls for unilateral US action against Al Qaeda in Pakistan's tribal areas. "I recognise Pakistan is a sovereign nation, and that's important for Americans to recognise," he said. Bush said he had seen reports that Gen Musharraf was about to declare emergency rule, but saw no evidence that the Pakistani president had made such a decision. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Yeah, maybe we can get the Islamonuts fairly elected just like Hamas was. I'm getting tired of this elections = democracy crap. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2007-08-10 10:51 |
| #1 Then maybe we can work on Chicago. |
| Posted by: Gary and the Samoyeds 2007-08-10 09:34 |