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US denies receiving evidence from Pak regarding India’s hand in Baloch insurgency | The United States has denied receiving any evidence regarding India’s alleged involvement in the Baloch insurgency from Pakistan. Interacting with a select
group of news editors here, just after President Barack Obama announced his revamped
Afghan strategy, US Ambassador to Pakistan Anne Patterson denied commenting on
India’s influence in Afghanistan, but added that Pakistan has not shared any evidence
of Indian involvement in the Tribal Areas or Balochistan with Washington. “If
Pakistan shares any evidence with us, we will look into it,” The Daily Times quoted
Patterson, as saying. Patterson also allayed Islamabad’s fears that the addition
of 30,000 troops to Afghanistan would create more trouble for the country, saying
Washington does not foresee the Taliban fleeing Afghanistan and crossing over
to Pakistan. “We don’t see any spillover effect of sending more troops to Afghanistan,”
she said. Responding to a question, Patterson pointed out that the Obama administration
had taken Islamabad on board before taking the decision to send more troops to
Afghanistan. “We (also) took Pakistan on board much before President Obama’s speech
... our secretary of state, CIA director and national security advisor (NSA) have
visited Pakistan and met the president, the prime minister and the army chief
besides other senior officials, to explain to them the contours of the US policy
for Afghanistan and the withdrawal strategy,” Patterson said. The US envoy stressed
that the US intelligence has credible information that Al Qaeda were eyeing Pakistan’s
nuclear weapons. “ We also have intelligence reports that some Al Qaeda groups
want their hands on Pakistan’s nuclear assets, but we (the US administration)
believe and we are also convinced that they are safe,” Patterson said. She tactically
refrained from responding to queries regarding an agreement between Washington
and Islamabad to carry out drone attacks inside Pakistan, saying both the countries
have inked several MoU’s. “There are many agreements and memoranda of
understanding ... ask your government,” Patterson told the Pakistani editors. |
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