Washington: Senate Armed Services Chairman, Senator Carl Levin is warning Pakistan that if necessary to protect its troops the U.S. will aggressively target Pakistani extremists.
While spoke at the Council on Foreign Relations, Democratic Senator Carl Levin of Michigan also said on Friday that the United States will end its troubled relationship with Pakistan if it fails to crack down on the Haqqani network. He said the Haqqani group should be designated a terrorist organization like the Taliban and al-Qaida.
“If Pakistan will not take on the threat posed by the Haqqanis and other extremist groups based in Pakistan who attack our forces in Afghanistan, then we should be prepared to take steps to defend our troops,”, he added
“We have the right to target not only forces and artillery attacking our forces in Afghanistan from across the border in Pakistan, but to target the people controlling those forces as well,” he said, according to the text of his prepared remarks.
. His remarks came as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in Pakistan pressuring its leaders to cooperate against the Haqqanis.
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