WASHINGTON: The United States believes that Pakistan has the capability of dealing with the militants operating within its border and also with those who may come from Afghanistan.
At a briefing at the US State Department, spokesman Ian Kelly, however, acknowledged that the fight against the militants could not be won by military means alone.
The United States, he said, was willing to provide Pakistan with the resources Islamabad needed to wean away the affected populations from the militants. That’s why, he said, the United States was providing economic assistance to Pakistan and was also helping reconstruction projects in the NWFP.
Asked if the United States believed Pakistan had the capability to deal with the militants inside its borders and with those coming from Afghanistan, spokesman Kelly said: ‘I think we do. I think that we certainly have more confidence now than we did even a few months ago, before they did take some decisive action to deal with this problem within their own borders.
(News sourced from: Regional Times)
