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| Change your focus on India as a thr |
| Change your focus on India as a threat: US tells Pak
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 25-April-2009
0:15:58 AM |
| Pressure mounted on Pakistan as the US led an unprecedented concerted effort to convince it to change its mindset and "traditional focus" on India as a threat and instead concentrate on Taliban extremists, who are just 100 kms away from Islamabad, posing an "existential threat" to the country.
Amid "extreme concern" in Washington over the Taliban's unchecked march towards other Pakistani cities, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton herself is leading the US efforts to convince Islamabad that its leadership need to take "appropriate actions."
"We have had a series of meetings with both Pakistanis and the Afghans, going in depth about how to get the Pakistani government to change their focus, from what they viewed as their existential threat, namely, India - to what we view as their existential threat - namely, this extremist insurgency," Clinton said.
Appearing before a Congressional Committee, Clinton expressed concern over the advance of Taliban militants towards major cities of Pakistan and said it posed an "existential threat" to the country.
"Changing paradigms is not easy, but there is an increasing awareness of not just the Pakistani government but the Pakistani people that this insurgency coming closer and closer to major cities does pose such a threat," she said.
The advances of Taliban, which moved to about 100 kms of Islamabad by taking control of Buner district just outside the capital region, has stunned the US, prompting Clinton as well as a number of senior American officials to come out openly against Pakistani leadership abdicating to the militants
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