...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
province.
"We continue to cooperate closely with Afghanistan, but also urge Pakistain to go after terrorists, especially Taliban leadership, and that cooperation continues," State Department Deputy Spokesman Mark Toner told news hounds.
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...back at the revival hall, Buford bit the snake and Eloise began speaking in tongues...
a former US Ambassador to Afghanistan, James B Cunningham, said the drone strike that killed Taliban leader Mullah Mansour inside Pakistain should send a signal that the United States will not tolerate terrorist safe havens.
"I hope that this is the beginning of a message that we will not tolerate any more the strategic challenge that is posed by the leadership of the Taliban being in Pakistain and having a safe haven there. I hope that this is the beginning of a new phase in the effort to bring the Taliban into a= political discussion," he told the Atlantic Council.
"It is rumoured that senior parts of the ISI (Pakistain's intelligence agency) may have been involved in setting Mansour up. The official account is that we informed Pakistain of the strike after it took place. In places like Afghanistan and Pakistain, conspiracy rumours will circulate for some time," he said.
Mr Cunningham hoped that this would force Pakistain to rethink the wisdom of providing safe heavens to terrorists. "I would hope so. I have seen some commentary from some Pak observers that this may encourage a rethinking of the policy that the ISI has been pursuing. That is what is necessary. That's what we, the US, have been arguing for years; that's what we need to find a way to accomplish," he said.
"We have a core strategic objective here, which is to bring the conflict to an end. In order to do that we need to make clear to the Taliban leaders that they will not prevail by terror and by military means. And we, the international community, need to make clear to the ISI that we are no longer going to tolerate the kind of policy that they have been pursuing," the former top American diplomat said.