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Nato urges Pakistan to continue fight against extremism
Nato on Wednesday urged Pakistan not to allow the tension with India over the Mumbai attacks to divert it from fighting extremists based in Pakistan's tribal areas whose support for Taliban has fueled the increasing violence in Afghanistan.
- Agencies
- Published: 18:47 December 3, 2008
Brussles: Nato on Wednesday urged Pakistan not to allow the tension with India over the Mumbai attacks to divert it from fighting extremists based in Pakistan's tribal areas whose support for Taliban has fueled the increasing violence in Afghanistan.
"I hope, of course, that the recent successes by Pakistan in fighting the extremists in the northwest will be sustained in the current difficult climate," Nato Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said after two days of talks with allied foreign ministers.
De Hoop Scheffer told a news conference he has received no information from Pakistani authorities that they were planning to divert resources away from the lawless tribal regions near the Afghan border.
The Nato ministers said the alliance was "open to closer military-to-military cooperation" and enhanced political cooperation with Pakistan. They said that Nato's force of 51,000 service members in Afghanistan would explore ways of improving collaboration Pakistani border units.
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said last week's terror attacks on Mumbai underscored the need for the West to help Pakistan.
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