US will retaliate if Pak based militants attack its citizens: MullenSeptember 10th, 2009 WASHINGTON - 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.
Pak "cannot and will not" shift troops from Indian borderJune 30th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has ruled out any possibility of shifting its troops from the eastern Indian border to the western border with Afghanistan. Addressing a joint press conference with the ISPR spokesman Major General Athar Abbas here, Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira said Pakistan will not remove its military from the Indian border and deploy it along the western border with Afghanistan.
Extremists within pose danger, but India a military threat: MusharrafMay 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf has said Islamabad was keeping its forces on the border with India because of a threat perception and not because it was less focused on the threat from Taliban extremists. 'Well, we have to be balanced in our approach.
To combat terrorism, US seeks to expand 'strategic partnership' with IndiaMay 15th, 2009 WASHINGTON - As the US pushes Pakistan to shift its focus from India to dismantling Al Qaeda safe havens in its territory, top Obama administration officials have outlined plans to expand an 'increasingly important strategic partnership' with India. With a growing convergence of interests ranging from combating terrorism to getting the global economy back on track, the US will seek an expanded strategic partnership, a top US diplomat who would be Obama's new point man for South and Central Asia told a Senate panel Thursday.
US to ensure Pak aid is not utilized against IndiaMay 8th, 2009 LAHORE - The United States has said it would ensure that the millions of dollars of aid, which it would be providing to Pakistan over a period of time, does not end up being used against India through cross-border terrorism. A US State Department spokesperson said Washington would make sure that the aid be utilized only for the purpose it is being given to Islamabad, and certainly not for fuelling militancy against India.
US to help improve India-Pakistan relations in 'due time'May 7th, 2009 WASHINGTON - In a cryptic remark, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said the Obama administration would unfold its plans to improve ties between India and Pakistan in 'due time'. 'Well, everything in due time,' she told reporters Wednesday when asked what action Washington was taking to help improve relations between the two South Asian neighbours given that it looks at Islamabad's India obsession as a big problem in the fight against Taliban.
Gates wants Saudi help in PakistanMay 4th, 2009 ABOARD A US AIR FORCE PLANE - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he wants Saudi Arabia to help forge a political consensus in Pakistan that it must deal with the threat from the Taliban, al-Qaida and related militant groups.
US says Swat deal failure a "real wake-up call" for PakistanMay 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has said the failure of the Swat deal is a "real wake-up call" for Pakistan, adding that the Pakistani military has started to regain the initiative in its northwestern areas that recently fell under the Taliban control. "It is my impression from the great distance that they have begun to regain the initiative," he said when asked about Pakistan army's operations against the Taliban militants in Buner and other areas around the Swat valley.
Taliban push a wake-up call for Pakistan: USMay 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The US believes Taliban forces' recent push in Pakistan has served as a wake-up call for Islamabad, which has long focused on India as its main threat, with little regard for the largely ungoverned western front. 'For 60 years Pakistan has regarded India as its existential threat, as the main enemy.
US warnings about Pak collapse adding to panic: WPApril 27th, 2009 WASHINGTON - While concerns were raised across the world about the Taliban gaining ground in Pakistan and arriving on the door steps of Islamabad, the sudden reaction by the United States and the open warning about Pakistan's democratic set-up caving-in to the hands of the extremists has only added to the panic in the region, says an article in the Washington Post. "In the course of just three days, the U.S.
Pakistan should change its mindset toward India: USApril 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - General David Petraeus, architect of the US military surge credited with dramatically reducing violence in Iraq, has said that Pakistan's leaders need to realise that their biggest threat comes from internal extremists, not from neighbouring India. 'It's an intellectually dislocating idea for the institutions of Pakistan,' Petraeus, the leader of US Central Command, which oversees the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, told a forum at the Harvard University Tuesday, referring to the country's military and political establishment.
Convincing Pak internal terror bigger threat to it than India proving "tough sell" for USApril 23rd, 2009 LAHORE - The United States is finding convincing Pakistan that the internal threat posed by extremism is a bigger threat to it than India, a "tough sell". Delivering a lecture at the Harvard University, Central Command chief General David Petraeus said Islamabad must change its attitude towards New Delhi.
'Pakistani leaders still see India as greater threat than terrorists'April 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Even as Pakistan faces 'an existential threat' from terrorists, many Pakistani leaders consider India as its principal threat and regard extremist groups as potential strategic asset against India, according to a top US commander. 'Destabilization of the nuclear-armed Pakistani state would present an enormous challenge to the United States, its allies, and our interests,' General David Petraeus, commander of US Central Command told the Senate Armed Services Committee Wednesday.
End ISI links with terror groups, says US to PakistanMarch 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The United States is pressing Islamabad to get its Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) agency to shed its links with the Taliban and other extremists that pose an existential threat to Pakistan itself. 'Some of those reports aren't new.
US asks ISI to cut off ties with Afghan based terror groupsMarch 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Terming the relation between Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Afghan extremists as "an existential threat", the United States has asked Pakistan to cut off all its ties with outlawed groups based in Afghanistan. "What we need to do is try and help the Pakistanis understand these groups are now an existential threat to them," US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said.
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