A journalist pointed out that the United States did not warn Pakistan before targeting Taliban leader Mullah Mansour in the Pakistani territory, which indicated an obvious lack of trust.
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“They (Pakistan) need to address all groups operating on their soil – Taliban groups that are operating on their soil and their territory”.
He repeated his earlier remarks that new Afghan leadership have an opportunity here to engage – re-engage on peace talks, and it’s their hope that they (Taliban) make that choice.
The US has asked Pakistan to co-operate with India in the 26/11 investigations and have appealed them to check all terror groups operating in their soil.
The assembly unanimously adopted a resolution against the United States drone strike – that killed Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour – calling it an attack on the country’s integrity and sovereignty, The News International reported.
“And we’re going to also continue to, as we share intelligence and other information with them, to point out we believe that terrorists are finding safe haven”. Toner said that in addition to these threats, Mansour was also not planning a productive role in leading towards negotiations or a peace process. Toner refused to acknowledge that the Washington no longer trusted Islamabad as an ally and conveyed U.S. concerns on the alleged presence of certain “terrorist” groups in Pakistan. He said that was the clear and pressing, imminent threat that we were addressing by removing him from the battlefield.
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Mark Toner, deputy spokesperson for US State Department was giving media briefing on Friday.
