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New Delhi: The US wants India to do more in Afghanistan and help fight its new enemy Baitullah Mehsud.
US special envoy Richard Holbrooke's message to India when he met Indian officials in New Delhi on Wednesday was, "Beitullah Mehsud, he is a terrible man. He is a great danger to Pakistan, to Afghanistan."
Pakistani Taliban leader Beitullah Mehsud is now Washington's public enemy number one as his men inch closer to Islamabad.
Latest reports claim Taliban is operating in Buner, which is just 100 kms away from the Pakistani capital, Islamabad. Mehsud is provoked by first ever drone attacks in the Orakzai agency in Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA).
America is worried and is looking for friends and allies to take Mehsud on and in the process, help them out of the Afghanistan bear trap.
"We cannot settle issues like Afghanistan, and many other issues without India's full involvement, said Holbrooke in New Delhi.
India is clear that it's willing to help but not at the cost of surrendering on its core concerns. Holbrooke insisted that he hadn't come to Delhi to mediate between India and Pakistan.
"We did not come here to ask the Indians to do anything. We did not come here to ask anything, Holbrooke added.
He said he was in Delhi to inform and consult and he also confirmed that the US was now in the implementation phase of the Af-Pak strategic review.
Holbrooke clarified that the first milestone in this phase will be a stable Pakistan which includes severing the Jehadi-ISI nexus.
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