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US will retaliate if Pak-based militants attack its citizens: Mullen | | The United States has made it clear that it would not hesitate to retaliate if its citizens are targeted by militants based in Pakistan. In an interview with the PBS, the US
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman, Admiral Mike Mullen said Islamabad is also aware
that if US citizens are targeted by Pakistani militants then Washington would
certainly respond. "The Pakistani government also understands that if US citizens
are attacked, and there's reliable information it originated in Pakistan , the
United States will respond," Admiral Mullen said. "It's a conversation I've had
many times - not just with military leadership, but also with political leadership
- that any president of the United States would respond to an attack on US citizens.
They understand that very clearly, and they don't disagree with that," Mullen
added. He said extremists are using Pakistan as a safe haven to plot attacks against
the US and other western countries, and highlighted that these terror sanctuaries
operating inside Pakistan 's territory must be destroyed. "I think you're at the
heart of dealing with the most difficult part of the problems we have there, where
we have this safe haven in a sovereign country that is threatening and plotting
against Americans and other Western countries, and it must be eliminated," The
Nation quoted Mullen, as saying. Defence Secretary, Robert Gates, who was also
present in the programme, said Islamabad has realized that the Taliban and other
extremists based in the western tribal area of the country pose the real existential
threat to it rather than India . Gates said Pakistan has acknowledged that the
real threat to its existence come from the extremists based in the lawless tribal
areas along the Afghan border and not from India . " Pakistan faces a lot of problems
right now. I think they have always thought of India as the existential threat
to Pakistan , but I think they are beginning to understand that the extremists
in the ungoverned spaces in their west have become an existential threat," he
said. Gates said Washington wants Islamabad to take hard action against the Taliban
and other extremist outfits having their base inside its territory. |
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