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Thursday, March 13, 2008
‘US in contact with Pakistan on Waziristan issue’
WASHINGTON: United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Wednesday that the US was in contact with Pakistan regarding violent extremism in North Waziristan. She said Pakistan understands that something beyond agreements needs to be done in North Waziristan, adding that a previous agreement had failed. Testifying before the House Appropriations Committee on the State, Foreign Relations and Related Programmes for the FY 2009 budget, she said the US was working with both Afghanistan and Pakistan to muster tribal support to address the problem. Rice also told US lawmakers that Israel’s plans to build hundreds of new homes in a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank did not help the peace process. afp
Courtesy Daily Times