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| Obama's new Af-Pak strategy on hold |
| Obama's new Af-Pak strategy on hold till Afghan run-off polls
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 22-October-2009
2:50:58 AM |
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The new Af-Pak strategy of the Obama Administration and the decision on sending more troops to Afghanistan is now literally on hold till the new government is formed in Kabul after next month's run-off to the presidential elections.
An indication to this effect was given by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry after he met President Barack Obama at the White House.
Kerry briefed the US President on his latest trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan, wherein he was successful in convincing Hamid Karzai to agree to the run-off.
Talking to reporters after the meeting, Kerry said it is important for the administration to know who their partner is in Kabul and if it is on the same page or not.
"I don't see how you turn to a mom or a dad in Massachusetts or in California or in Wichita, anywhere, and ask, their kids to go out into an augmented effort in a country where a critical component of the mission you're asking them to perform requires good government, and you don't know what the government is. So, I would strongly urge the President to put this together in the next weeks," Kerry said.
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