KABUL - Pakistan has to do more to control its border with Afghanistan and stop Taleban insurgents organising in Pakistan where Al Qaeda leaders are also present, a US senator said on Friday. US Senator Jack Reed said Pakistan had made an ”extraordinary contribution” to the success of Operation Enduring Freedom, the US-led Afghan operation against the Taleban and their allies launched five years ago on Saturday.
“But going forward, there has to be a much more aggressive effort to control the border and prevent any suggestion that Taleban elements can freely associate and organise themselves within Pakistan,” Reed, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told a news conference. “Also, I don’t think we can lose sight of the fact there still appears to be Al Qaeda leadership elements in Pakistan and that, for us, is a continuing and constant effort to identify and pre-empt these elements,” said Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat.
| I'm impressed; this is a useful, bipartisan statement from a Democrat. Don't see that much these days. |
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