NEW YORK: Tensions flared between the U.S. and Pakistan as two senior officials from both countries were involved in a war of words and accused each other of not doing enough to combat the terrorist Taliban sanctuaries in Af-Pak region.
Principal adviser to President Barack Obama for Afghanistan and Pakistan Douglas Lute, and the Pakistani ambassador in Washington, Sherry Rehman traded sharp words in Colorado, the New York Times said.
Rehman said the Pakistani Taliban fighters, who have taken refuge in two remote provinces in eastern Afghanistan, increasingly carried out attacks on Pakistan. On 52 occasions in the past eight months, said Pakistan had given to the commanders of U.S. and NATO locations from which militants were attacking, but without success.
Lute replied immediately, saying, "No recent comparison of the Pakistani Taliban, small-scale presence inside Afghanistan to the decades-long experience and the relationship between elements of the Pakistani government and the Afghan Taliban" he said. "To compare the results is simply unfair."
Rehman said that Pakistan was "feeling a bit on the back stroke of redistribution of ISAF along the border," referring to the NATO command in Afghanistan.
Principal adviser to President Barack Obama for Afghanistan and Pakistan Douglas Lute, and the Pakistani ambassador in Washington, Sherry Rehman traded sharp words in Colorado, the New York Times said.
Rehman said the Pakistani Taliban fighters, who have taken refuge in two remote provinces in eastern Afghanistan, increasingly carried out attacks on Pakistan. On 52 occasions in the past eight months, said Pakistan had given to the commanders of U.S. and NATO locations from which militants were attacking, but without success.
Lute replied immediately, saying, "No recent comparison of the Pakistani Taliban, small-scale presence inside Afghanistan to the decades-long experience and the relationship between elements of the Pakistani government and the Afghan Taliban" he said. "To compare the results is simply unfair."
Rehman said that Pakistan was "feeling a bit on the back stroke of redistribution of ISAF along the border," referring to the NATO command in Afghanistan.
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