[Peace-discuss] Obama gives Pakistan ultimatum

[C. G. Estabrook]

      'Obama gives Pakistan ultimatum'
     Wed Sep 29, 2010 4:55PM

     A recent US chopper attack killed 50 in Pakistan
     Washington has reportedly conveyed the message that the Obama administration
     will no longer tolerate safe havens for terrorists in Pakistan to President 
Asif Ali Zardari.

Senior US officials have told Zardari during a series of secret meetings that 
President Barack Obama claims the cancer of terrorism exists in Pakistan, The 
Washington Post reported on Wednesday.

The meetings took place in Islamabad after US officials blamed the failed Time 
Square attempt in New York a US citizen of Pakistani descent.

The report comes as Western media reports said that the Pakistan-based militants 
were planning simultaneous strikes in major European cities.

However, Pakistani military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas has dismissed 
the reports as speculative.

"We don't have any credible information from sources that any such planning is 
taking place or terrorists are planning anything in North Waziristan."

North Waziristan, one of the most volatile regions in Pakistan, has been 
targeted more than 65 times this year alone by unmanned US drones, with 
September seeing more attacks than any other month since the unauthorized 
strikes began.

These non-UN-sanctioned attacks by US troops, which were initiated by former US 
president George W. Bush and have continued under President Obama, have 
drastically increased in recent weeks at a time when devastating floods have 
taken their toll on the South Asian country.

The developments also come days after two helicopters operated by the US-led 
forces in Afghanistan crossed into Pakistan's volatile tribal areas, killing at 
least 50 people.

Experts believe that Obama's harsh tone suggests that the US and its Western 
allies are expanding their military agenda and occupation policy in the name of 
war on terror across the volatile region.

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