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Pakistan rejects Obama’s Af-Pak strategy

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ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has rejected the Obama administration’s strategy of linking policy on Pakistan and Afghanistan in an effort to end the Taliban insurgency and bring stability to the region.

US President Barack Obama earlier this year appointed senior diplomat Richard Holbrooke as his special representative to Pakistan and Afghanistan in a move intended to address these two states as a single area of conflict. “Afghanistan and Pakistan are distinctly different countries and cannot be lumped together for any reason,” Zardari said in an interview with the Financial Times on the anniversary of his first year in office.

Zardari’s comments reflect Pakistan’s unwillingness to be aligned in a joint policy framework with neighbouring Afghanistan, an approach referred to as “Af-Pak”. The Pakistani leader and his senior officials draw a distinction between a Pakistan with functioning institutions, diversified economy and a powerful national army, and Afghanistan, a state shattered by decades of conflict and ethnic divisions.
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At September 12, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Blogger Sikander Hayat said...

Situation in Pakistan is getting better and the capture of Taliban leader Muslim Khan in Swat testifies to this fact.

http://real-politique.blogspot.com

 

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