A deeply concerned U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has demanded an end to cross border exchange of fire between Nato troops in Afghanistan and Pakistan army, Geo News reported.
Talking to an American TV channel,she said General John Allen during his meeting with Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani brought this issue up with special emphasis. Both generals were on the same page in this regard, she added.
She gave full vent to US worries over such incidents.
She said, “We were trying to dig into what sparked these cross-border skirmishes between the two neighbouring nations”.
Secretary Clinton endorsed Admiral Mike Mullen’s allegations regarding ISI-Haqqani covert connections, adding back in the day Americans were not the target set in the ‘cross hair’ of Haqqanis’ but now they are, which gives us a strong reason to do something about it.
Sending a tough message to Pakistan she said we couldn’t stomach today what we had somehow put up with yesterday.
"They must be part of the solution and that means ridding their own country of terrorists who kill their own people and cross the border to kill in Afghanistan," Clinton said.
"We're going to be fighting, we're going to be talking and we're going to be building. And they can either be helping or hindering, but we are not going to stop our efforts."
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