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Sunday, October 09, 2011
Increase pressure on Pakistan: Kabul to USKABUL: The Kabul government, on Saturday, demanded that Washington increase pressure on Pakistan to act against terrorists using its soil to attack Afghanistan, saying Afghans were running out of patience. Afghan President Hamid Karzai held talks with US special Envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan, Marc Grossman, in Kabul just days after President Barack Obama warned Pakistan there were “some connections” between its intelligence services and extremists. “The Afghan president asked Grossman to put more pressure on Pakistan so that future meetings with them should bring a positive result,” one official at the presidential palace told AFP on condition of anonymity. Relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan, long mired in distrust, have recently, deteriorated with Kabul alleging that the murder of its peace envoy Burhanuddin Rabbani was hatched in Pakistan and carried out by a Pakistani. Kabul claimed to have foiled an alleged plot in Pakistan to assassinate Karzai. US embassy spokesman Gavin Sundwall told AFP that Grossman was on a tour of the region to discuss preparations for international conferences on Afghanistan’s future in Istanbul and Bonn later this year. On Thursday, Obama accused that there’s some connections between the Pakistani military and intelligence services with certain individuals. Islamabad denies links between the Haqqanis and its intelligence services. afp
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk