War against terrorism:
Afghanistan, US believe Pakistan not doing enough: experts
Daily Times Monitor
LAHORE: Afghan and US officials believe that Pakistan is not fully cooperating in the war on terror, and want Pakistan to ‘do more’ to capture Osama Bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahri and Mullah Muhammad Umar, experts and analysts said in Geo television’s Foreign Affairs programme on Wednesday.
Rahimullah Yousafzai, a senior journalist, said that Afghan officials and the US administration wanted to build pressure on Pakistan to force it to do something extraordinary. He said that the US attacked Afghanistan either to capture or kill Osama, Zawahri and Mullah Umar, but it could not achieve this objective. The US officials believe that Osama, Zawahri and Mullah Umar are hiding in Pakistan along the Afghan border, but Pakistan is not arresting them, Yousafzai said. “In fact, US and Afghan officials are levelling such allegations against Pakistan to hide their failure to capture the top Al Qaeda leadership,” he added.
Air Marshall (r) Riazudin Sheikh said the US believed that it was not getting the equal return against its $1.2 billion financial support to Pakistan. He asked Pakistan to take a firm stand against such allegations. Sheikh said the Afghan government deliberately ignored Pakistan’s proposals to guard borders, since it wanted to continue levelling such allegations against Pakistan in future.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C05%5C11%5Cstory_11-5-2006_pg7_47
Afghanistan, US believe Pakistan not doing enough: experts
Daily Times Monitor
LAHORE: Afghan and US officials believe that Pakistan is not fully cooperating in the war on terror, and want Pakistan to ‘do more’ to capture Osama Bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahri and Mullah Muhammad Umar, experts and analysts said in Geo television’s Foreign Affairs programme on Wednesday.
Rahimullah Yousafzai, a senior journalist, said that Afghan officials and the US administration wanted to build pressure on Pakistan to force it to do something extraordinary. He said that the US attacked Afghanistan either to capture or kill Osama, Zawahri and Mullah Umar, but it could not achieve this objective. The US officials believe that Osama, Zawahri and Mullah Umar are hiding in Pakistan along the Afghan border, but Pakistan is not arresting them, Yousafzai said. “In fact, US and Afghan officials are levelling such allegations against Pakistan to hide their failure to capture the top Al Qaeda leadership,” he added.
Air Marshall (r) Riazudin Sheikh said the US believed that it was not getting the equal return against its $1.2 billion financial support to Pakistan. He asked Pakistan to take a firm stand against such allegations. Sheikh said the Afghan government deliberately ignored Pakistan’s proposals to guard borders, since it wanted to continue levelling such allegations against Pakistan in future.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C05%5C11%5Cstory_11-5-2006_pg7_47