Washington: United States special representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan, Marc Grossman has admitted that number of Pakistanis killed in terrorist attacks since 2003 are just enormous at Nineteen thousand.
During his recent interview, he cites this as an important implication that extremism and terrorism was a threat to Pakistan; as it was equally to Afghanistan, and United States: stressing that a joint effort on behalf of all three countries should be able to work together deal with this problem.
He said that Pakistan and US were trying to seek conducive course of action to safeguard mutual interests, as equally stressed by US President Barack Obama about importance of Pakistanis focusing in on the terrorist question besides the need for engagement between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Replying to a question, he rejected the notion that Pakistan Army and other institutions in Pakistan were funded by US (using US aid) to kill Afghanis through ‘Haqqani Network’, he said that Pakistan had some very important work to do in the anti-terrorism area.
He said that it was true with the ‘Haqqani network issue’, but this should not be of any great surprise, because extremism and terrorism were undoubtedly a threat to Pakistan and as expounded by President Obama, Secretary Hillary Clinton and other leaders in the United States, including Marc Grossman have spoken over this, and Pakistan had to do some desired work counter-terrorism.
Grossman out rightly rejected the recently convened APC ( All-Party Conference)Â as purely a Pakistani issue , stressing that Pakistani parliamentarians, members of civil society, masses should realize that terrorism and extremism were a threat against them; considering massive civilian / military losses.
Reminding that Pakistan and the America actually have collaborated extremely effectively on the question of al-Qaeda, he quoted what President Obama stated on numerous occasions about an effective campaign against al-Qaeda terrorists in Pakistan, compared to other countries.
He was confident that government of Pakistan did recognize the threat of extremism and terrorism and would resolve the issue.
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