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| US won't allow safe havens ...... |
| US won't allow safe havens for terrorists in Pak: Obama
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 10-February-2009
1:23:54 AM |
| In a stern warning to Pakistan, President Barack Obama asserted that his administration would not allow "safe havens" for Al-Qaeda and Taliban terrorists operating with "impunity" in tribal areas bordering Afghanistan.
This is the message his special envoy Richard Holbrooke, currently in Islamabad, has been asked to deliver to Pakistan, Obama said.
"My bottom line is that we cannot allow Al Qaida to operate. We cannot have those safe havens in that region," Obama said in his first press conference after assuming office on January 20.
"You've got the Taliban and Al-Qaida operating in the Federally-administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and these border regions between Afghanistan and Pakistan," Obama said.
The 47-year-old President said one of the goals of Holbrooke, as he is traveling throughout the region, is to deliver a message to Pakistan that they are "endangered as much as we are by the continuation of those operations, and that we've got to work in a regional fashion to root out those safe havens."
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