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Concerned over the rising Taliban insurgency in the Afghan-Pak border, US President Barack Obama is expected to do some tough talking with his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari on the need to take firm action to rein in the extremists and also tell Islamabad to shed its "obsession" of viewing India as a "mortal threat".
Zardari and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai arrived in Washington to participate in the two-day trilateral summit of US, Pakistan and Afghanistan tomorrow with the spotlight firmly on fighting the Taliban in the region.
The trilateral summit is an initiative of Obama, who wants to establish his own channel of direct communication with the leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan, the prime focus of his foreign policy.
"I think he (Obama) will reiterate what he said to you guys last week," White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said when asked whether Obama will make it clear to Pakistan that "there's no threat from India." Referring to the statement made by Obama in this regard last week, Gibbs said: "I think the President spoke pretty clearly to this last week in underscoring where the threat lies in Pakistan and where it doesn't."
Obama had said last week that Pakistan has started to recognise that that the "obsession" with India as the mortal threat to it has been misguided and that its biggest threat right now comes internally.
Zardari and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai arrived in Washington to participate in the two-day trilateral summit of US, Pakistan and Afghanistan tomorrow with the spotlight firmly on fighting the Taliban in the region.
The trilateral summit is an initiative of Obama, who wants to establish his own channel of direct communication with the leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan, the prime focus of his foreign policy.
"I think he (Obama) will reiterate what he said to you guys last week," White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said when asked whether Obama will make it clear to Pakistan that "there's no threat from India." Referring to the statement made by Obama in this regard last week, Gibbs said: "I think the President spoke pretty clearly to this last week in underscoring where the threat lies in Pakistan and where it doesn't."
Obama had said last week that Pakistan has started to recognise that that the "obsession" with India as the mortal threat to it has been misguided and that its biggest threat right now comes internally.
