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Al-Qaida now focusing attacks on Pak: US
22 Dec 2007, 0902 hrs IST,PTI
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WASHINGTON: The infiltration by Al-Qaida militants
into Afghanistan has come down as the "fighters” are
now focussing on attacks against Pakistan government,
the US said on Saturday.
"The number of fighters coming across the border in
RC-East is down about 40 per cent. Al-Qaida right now
seems to have turned its face towards Pakistan and
attacks on the Pakistani government and Pakistani
people," Defence Secretary Robert Gates said.
"There is no question that Al-Qaida has re-established
in some of the frontier area. But so far, we haven't
seen any significant consequence of that in
Afghanistan," he said.
Noting that the Pakistani army has had some success in
their counter-insurgency effort in Swat, Gates said
the US has been "impressed" by new Pakistan army chief
Parvez Kayani and that Washington would work closely
with him.
"We are impressed with this new chief and would begin
a dialogue with him in terms of how we can help them
do a better job in counterinsurgency through both
training and equipment," he added.
However, the Defence Secretary acknowledged that there
has been an increase in violence in Afghan over the
past year.
"But in part it has been due to much more aggressive
actions on the part of the NATO alliance and the US
forces that are there. The spring offensive we
expected from the Taliban became NATO's spring
offensive," Gates said.
"And here again I think that the challenge for 2008
will be to sustain the successes we've had, to hang on
to places that we have cleared... and create the
conditions in which further economic development can
go forward," he added.
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