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Pakistan on top of Britain's foreign policy priority list: Miliband | The ongoing 'war on terror' in Afghanistan and related challenges in Pakistan, tops British foreign policy, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said.
Addressing the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Miliband said the prime
rationale of the Afghan war, which was to dismantle Al-Qaeda's safe havens in
the region, has come under scrutiny with the extremists now being pushed into
Pakistan 's tribal regions. "The 1,600 mile Afghan border with Pakistan , the
presence of Al Qaeda's senior leadership in Pakistan 's border areas, and the
links between the two countries, means that their stability needs to be addressed
together," Miliband said. While explaining the reasons behind Pakistan being a
major factor in British' plans for stabilising South Asia, he claimed that Afghan
Taliban leadership was primarily based in Pakistan . "The so-called Pakistan Taliban
were a loose collection of insurgent leaders mainly in Waziristan , and were primarily
focussed eastwards against the authority of the Pakistani state," The Dawn quoted
Miliband, as saying. Miliband urged the Pakistani leadership to expand the country's
fight against Al-Qaeda and other banned extremist groups. " Pakistan 's leaders
will need to broaden its fight to address Al Qaeda's leadership and the full range
of other militant groups, not just those who pose the most direct threat to Pakistan
," he said. |
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