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| Afghans and Pakistanis "squeezing" Taliban and al Qaeda |
| 2008-04-15 |
| Al Qaeda and Taliban militants on the Afghan-Pakistani border are increasingly facing pressure on two fronts and they can be squeezed with more coordination between the neighbors, a U.S. official said on Monday. Pakistani forces have also been fighting the militants, based in semi-autonomous tribal regions along the border, who have unleashed an unprecedented wave of violence in Pakistan since the middle of last year. "To some extent, the extremists in those areas are now fighting on two fronts," U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher told a news conference in Kabul. "They have to deal with pressures from the Pakistan side and the pressure from the Afghan side. The more we can do that in concert with each other, the more squeezed the al Qaeda and Taliban supporters in those areas will feel," said Boucher who makes regular trips to both Pakistan and Afghanistan. Relations between the neighbors have been dogged by Afghan complaints Pakistan is not doing enough to wipe out Taliban sanctuaries and stop the flow of fighters and arms into Afghanistan. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Let's see now. There's Pak soldiers on the east. There's Afghan troops on the west. Then there's "made in USA" coming in from the sky. I count three fronts. God love 'em all. |
| Posted by: Jack Slineger4174 2008-04-15 10:19 |