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Pakistan ‘epicentre’ for global terrorism: Mike Mullen

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WASHINGTON: US chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, on Wednesday called Pakistan the ”epicentre” for global terrorism and said he was ”confident” that the Pakistani military knows what it has to do to eliminate the threat.

”It is absolutely critical that the safe havens in Pakistan get shut down. We cannot succeed in Afghanistan without that,” he said.

However, in an unusually upbeat assessment on the war, Mullen declared that the enemy in Afghanistan was losing.

The remark comes as the US faces a critical six-month period in Afghanistan.

US President Barack Obama last year ordered a build-up of troops with the promise that they would start leaving the country in July. Many of Obama’s Democratic supporters in Congress say they want to see significant progress by then.

But senior military officials, including Mullen, say they still aren’t sure how many troops can leave this summer and from what areas they would be pulled. They caution that significant drawdowns might not happen until closer to 2014, when Afghan President Hamid Karzai has promised to take over security of the country.

Mullen predicted on Wednesday that there would be ”plenty of forces left” come July and he expects violence to rise as US and Afghan forces continue to confront Taliban strongholds.

But, he added, local towns are beginning to reject Taliban fighters and that surprising progress is being seen in tough areas like southern Kandahar province.

”I have every confidence that (the enemy) will continue to lose, so long as coalition and Afghan forces increase their presence and their pressure on his operations and improve their own capacity,” he told reporters at the Foreign Press Center.

Last month, the Obama administration completed a strategy review that concluded Taliban momentum had been halted in many parts of Afghanistan and that al Qaeda leaders thought to be plotting further terrorist attacks on the US from Pakistan sanctuaries have suffered grievous losses.

But the review also made clear that further progress won’t come easily. And it indicates that ultimate success depends heavily on factors beyond Obama’s control, such as Pakistan’s effectiveness in eliminating al Qaeda and Taliban havens on its side of the border.

When asked whether he was painting too rosy a picture of the war, Mullen said that was not his intention.

”I’m encouraged, but I do not want to understate in any way, shape or form the difficulty of the task,” he said. ”It clearly continues to be severe.”
 
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all i can say is temperatures are changing!
America has been a big failure in Afghanistan and they are to blame it for themselves...remember Hamid gul warning to american when they turned their back on Afghanistan and refused to provide the economic rebuilding they promised post war..if you cheat someone it will always come back to haunt..all the money and lives wasted in war could have been saved if rebuilding efforts and funding was provided post soviet-afghan war. Not only it betrayed the pro-US faction but killed the cause of going to war with communism and made them look bad among their own country men!
 
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America is getting ready to impart full blame for their many failures in Afghanistan on Pakistan. They can't lose face in front of their public and Pakistan makes an easy scapegoat for their ills. All they're doing right now is giving some history, some previous statements, so that the idea of Pakistan being a problem and a centre for terrorism is already in the minds of the people before full blame is laid at Pakistan's doorstep.
 
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have u forgotten india?:disagree::disagree:

count how many civil and military men killed in india then come back:cry:

believe me india is victim in media only your country never lose half of loses which we lose in last 10 years.
 
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get every pakistani a job and a nice pay... and make pakistan a prosperous country... and u will see terrorism.. go away..
 
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have u forgotten india?:disagree::disagree:

Has India lost 30,000 of its citizens + over a trillion rupee in this war ? If not so you should openly identify the suffering of Pakistan and acknowledge it is the biggest victim of terrorism, even more than USA itself.

Apni machli talwane ke lia harwaqt tayyar rehte ho tum to.. If you want world to look at India as victim of Terrorism, you must not overlook it is also a source of terrorism.
 
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Has India lost 30,000 of its citizens + over a trillion rupee in this war ? If not so you should openly identify the suffering of Pakistan and acknowledge it is the biggest victim of terrorism, even more than USA itself.

Apni machli talwane ke lia harwaqt tayyar rehte ho tum to.. If you want world to look at India as victim of Terrorism, you must not overlook it is also a source of terrorism.
pakistan is the epicenter of terrorism and pakistan is the biggest victim of terrorism is paradox, but both are true. world needs a peaceful, stable and tolerant pakistan.
 
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Yes both India and Pakistan are victims to terror but Pakistan had no choice but to join the WOT after 9/11 like musharraf once quoted Pakistan will be bombed back to the stone age if it did not agree
 
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pakistan is the epicenter of terrorism and pakistan is the biggest victim of terrorism is paradox, but both are true. world needs a peaceful, stable and tolerant pakistan.

That's what western media fed you.
 
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