Washington, DC:
Pakistan has got yet another dose of toughspeak from Washington, this time from US President Obama himself.
Virtually reading out the riot act to Islamabad, Obama said Pakistan's real enemy was the cancer of terrorism within, not India.
"I think there has been in the past a view on the part of Pakistan that their primary rival, India, was their only concern. I think what you've seen over the last several months is a growing recognition that they have a cancer in their midst; that the extremist organisations that have been allowed to congregate and use as a base the frontier areas to then go into Afghanistan -- that now threatens Pakistan's sovereignty."
Speaking at a joint press conference with Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, Obama also said his administration's goal is to break down some of the old suspicions and the old bad habits and continue to work with the Pakistani government to see their interest in a stable Afghanistan which is free from foreign meddling.
"Afghanistan, Pakistan, the United States, the international community should all be working to reduce the influence of extremists in those regions," Obama added.
Virtually reading out the riot act to Islamabad, Obama said Pakistan's real enemy was the cancer of terrorism within, not India.
"I think there has been in the past a view on the part of Pakistan that their primary rival, India, was their only concern. I think what you've seen over the last several months is a growing recognition that they have a cancer in their midst; that the extremist organisations that have been allowed to congregate and use as a base the frontier areas to then go into Afghanistan -- that now threatens Pakistan's sovereignty."
Speaking at a joint press conference with Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, Obama also said his administration's goal is to break down some of the old suspicions and the old bad habits and continue to work with the Pakistani government to see their interest in a stable Afghanistan which is free from foreign meddling.
"Afghanistan, Pakistan, the United States, the international community should all be working to reduce the influence of extremists in those regions," Obama added.
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