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Lifting moratorium on executions internal matter of Pakistan: US  

by SANA
WASHINGTON: The US has termed lifting moratorium on executions the internal matter of Pakistan.

In a briefing, Spokesperson for US State Department Marie Harf said Pakistan is the most affected country in war against terrorism and lifting moratorium on executions is its internal matter.
She said US Present Barack Obama and Secretary John Kerry both spoke to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after Peshawar school attack and stood ready to provide assistance in the wake of that horrific attack.
To a question Ms. Harf said, terrorism is a threat for both US and Pakistan and they had worked jointly to counter this menace.

Commenting on the bail that was granted to Mumbai terrorist attack mastermind Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi by an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan, Harf said the US was “concerned”, but noted that the Pakistani government had pledged its cooperation in bringing the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks to justice. She added that the US urged them to uphold that promise.
Taking a cue from Harf’s answer, a reporter asked her whether the US still saw Pakistan to discriminate and differentiate between good terrorists and bad terrorists to which the State Department spokesperson reiterated that the US was concerned by reports circulating in the media which said that Lakhvi had received bail.
“We have worked very closely with Pakistan on counterterrorism. More Pakistanis are victims of counterterrorism, I think, than anywhere in the world. So clearly it’s a shared threat, but when we have concerns like this we’ll raise them,” she said.
Harf dismissed a question regarding reports that stated that the US may not target Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Omar. “I don’t think that’s something for the State Department to speak to,” she said.

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