U.S. Presses Pakistan to Go After Specific Militant Leaders

[Toramana]

The United States has given a list of militant Islamic leaders it wants Pakistan to take action against and heading the list is Osama bin Laden's top deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri.

The most wanted list also includes Siraj Haqqani, the operational commander of the Haqqani network of fighters allied with al Qaeda and the Taliban; Ilyas Kashmiri, the head of the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami and likely a senior member of al Qaeda; and Atiya Abdel Rahman, the operations chief of al Qaeda.

The list was devised during three separate meetings between senior Pakistani and U.S. officials over the past two weeks, according to a U.S. official, a Pakistani government official and a Pakistani intelligence official.
Speaking to the media in Islamabad, Clinton said the U.S. expects Pakistan to authorize "joint action against al Qaeda and its affiliates," adding, "there is still much more ...

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/us-pre...ry?id=13701607

[graveyardofempires]

so they werent going after them?

LOL

[Toramana]

NEW DELHI: The US Homeland Security chief said on Friday she viewed the banned Pakistani group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) as an equal in danger to the al Qaeda network.
Janet Napolitano, speaking on a trip to New Delhi where she met top Indian security officials, was asked about the threat posed by the group blamed for the 2008 Mumbai attacks in which 166 people were killed.
“It is is one that seeks to harm people and the US perspective is that the LeT is an organisation which is in the same ranks of al Qaeda-related groups,” Napolitano told reporters after day-long talks in New Delhi.
India believes the LeT and the Pakistani intelligence service staged the 2008 attacks in Mumbai, which severely strained ties between the countries and led to a breakdown in their peace talks.
David Coleman Headley, an American-Pakistani facing trial in a Chicago court in connection with the attacks in India’s financial capital, has admitted to his links with the LeT and Pakistani intelligence.
The group, founded to fight India’s presence in the disputed territory of Pakistan, denied any involvement in the Mumbai carnage.
Napolitano said the US had worked with India on investigations into the Mumbai attacks and would grant Indian investigators further access to Headley, the key government witness in the trial of an alleged accomplice.
“The United States has given India full access to the witness and once the case (trial) is over more access will be given. It is an example of how our two countries operate,” she said.
A twice convicted drug dealer, Headley admitted to taking part in the Mumbai plot after prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty or to allow him to be extradited to India, Pakistan or Denmark on related charges.

http://www.dawn.com/2011/05/27/pakis...-qaeda-us.html

[graveyardofempires]

toramana wrora

this si all BS
pakistan wishes she could make her master happy but they are getting screwed by Pashtuns from waziristan.

[ComradePashtun]

We might be expecting some kind of symbolic victory against Al-Qaida and non-significant Taliban at first, most probably that is/are rather a pain for both U.S./Pakistan that arre dispesible without a serious backcclash. As for the rest, Pakistan can only exert "degree" of pressure, even if groups such as Hqani and Omar's Quetta Shura are ameanable to Pakistani influence/pressure. Pakistan has to show for its seriousness in the process and this will be a laborious task with alot of malcontents, so it will involve some check and blanaces, while the process is carried out on parallel tracks: while Taliban are influenced and pressured to talk, it makes sure it is done that its long term interests are not harmed, and at the meanwhile it covers its back in event there is drawbacks. This can be done with degree of trust, and the U.S. knows Pakistan is capable of scuttling the process if it wants. So there will be trust and accomodation, which is a good thing. I believe some kind of a woking procedure is being already worked in the recent thrust of diplomatic cross capital forays. The only area of contention might be the degree of involvement of Pakistan in the negotiations, which it so far was denied any direct involvement from Pakistan, but now Pakistan has openly relented its previous retheoric of "everything has to go throw Islamabad and without Pakistan it can never succeed". SO the right sort of balance is probably in place. I see it with a degree of hope and stability in both countries.