* Hillary Clinton vows sustained ties with Islamabad, Kabul to avoid past mistakesThursday, December 03, 2009
ISLAMABAD/WASHINGTON: The United States wants to see democracy flourish in Pakistan, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday.
“It is democracy that strengthens the institutions and to my reckoning, Pakistan is quite resolved for the democracy. However, the country itself will have to tackle its internal issues,” APP quoted Clinton as saying.
“We want to help democracy in Pakistan,” she said, adding, “We want to do this in such fashion that democracy in Pakistan is buttressed and Pakistanis attain a future of their choice, which they told me during my Pakistan tour.”
Clinton said Washington would press Islamabad to “do more” against all the terrorist groups threatening Pakistan, its neighbours and the US, AFP reported.
“It will be our continuing effort... to make the case that the Pakistanis have to do more against all of the insurgent terrorist groups that are threatening them, that are threatening us in Afghanistan and the Afghan people and are threatening other neighbours in the region,” Clinton said.
Past mistakes: The US secretary of state vowed not to repeat past US mistakes that had allowed extremists to thrive in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
“The extremists we are fighting in Afghanistan and Pakistan have attacked us and our allies before,” Clinton said.
“If we allow them access to the very same safe havens they used before 2001, they will have a greater capacity to regroup and attack again,” she said. agencies
Source:
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