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Sunday, September 11, 2011
‘Pakistani cooperation helped make US safer’
WASHINGTON: Ten years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the United States is safer because of the cooperation it got from Pakistan through the decade and Washington continues to pursue important cooperative relationship with the South Asian country, a White House spokesman said. President Barak Obama’s spokesman Jay Carney said the US-Pakistan relationship “is an important relationship and it is complicated as I have said numerous times from the podium, but America and Americans are safer because of the cooperation we have been able to achieve with Pakistan.”
The White House press secretary, in an interaction with journalists on the eve of the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, also recognised the Pakistani sacrifices in the struggle against terrorists, since Islamabad entered into an anti-terrorism alliance with Washington with the US invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001.
“It is important to remember that Pakistanis and Pakistan have been victims of al Qaeda, victims of all kinds of extremist terrorism,” he noted as officials and experts in Pakistan weighed in on the heavy price Pakistan has paid in terms of human lives and economic losses in the continuing anti-terror fight and retaliatory bombings originating from the Afghan border. The Obama administration continues “to pursue a relationship of cooperation” as the two countries continue to go after al Qaeda, Carney said, days after Islamabad captured a top al-Qaeda operative. appCourtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk