Friday, June 12, 2009

Pakistan to overpower extremism, hopes US






Updated at: 0500 PST, Saturday, June 13, 2009
WASHINGTON: US state department has hoped that Pakistan will overpower terrorism while international community will continue to extend their support for Pakistan’s internally displaced persons (IDPs) left out by military offensive in Swat and the other areas of NWFP.

During routine briefing here, the spokesmen to US state department Philip J. Crowley, to a question in regard to reports on the possibility of imposition of Martial Law in restive areas of Pakistan, said US concentrates on the relief and rehabilitation of displaced persons in Pakistan.

Pakistan is giving its hundred person to win its war on terror, which is commendable; he quoted Richard Holbrooke (US special envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan) as saying.

Reports have reached here that Pakistan army has entered Waziristan besides continuous army action to curb militancy in Swat and Malakand Divisions, he divulged.

Pakistan will soon abolish militancy as well as violence within this week US state department spokesman hoped.

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