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Pak military expecting to establish foothold in Waziristan by Dec: Qureshi | The Pakistani military is hoping to establish its
foothold in South Waziristan, where a ground offensive against the Taliban is going on, by mid-December, the country's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi
has said. Qureshi said it would be difficult to give a timeframe for total military
success, but "we would want to achieve our objectives as much as possible before
the winter sets in." "And it seems, as things are going on, that we might be able
to do so ... I can't give you a date, but that area becomes very cold (by late
December). We want to operate and establish our foothold before that," the Daily
Times quoted Qureshi, as saying. Qureshi, who is in Kuala Lumpur to attend a meeting
of Islamic countries, told reporters that the army has faced less resistance than
it had expected. "The operation so far has been very successful. The resistance
that we were expecting initially did not come with the same swiftness we were
expecting. They (Taliban) are on the run. They are in retreat and there is disarray
over there," he said. Reacting to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's remark
that it was hard to believe that no one in Pakistan's government knew where the
Al Qaeda leadership was hiding, Quereshi said Clinton was not being "negative
or sarcastic", but "objective". "We feel a troop surge which is well-coordinated
with US would produce results. Pakistan's point of view is that it is not only
the numbers that will count in Afghanistan. It's how you use those numbers," he
pointed out. |
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