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Post by Frenchie on Apr 26, 2009 15:43:41 GMT 1
The United States made it clear to Pakistan that it will attack Taliban militants in the Swat valley if the Pakistani Government failed to stop their advance towards Islamabad. A senior Pakistani official said the Obama administration intervened after Taliban forces expanded from Swat into the adjacent district of Buner, 60 miles from the capital. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan inroads in the Swat valley raised international concern, particularly in Washington, where officials feared that Islamabad was rapidly succumbing to Islamist extremists, The Times reported. "The implicit threat - if you don't do it, we may have to - was always there," said the Pakistani official. He said that under American pressure, Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) told the Taliban to withdraw from Buner on Friday.
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