So what is Bush going to do? I suppose he could finance a Musharraf coup.
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A senior US official on Thursday opposed the new Pakistani government's intended talks with pro-Taliban militants who have launched a series of suicide attacks on security forces in recent months.
'I don't see how you can talk to those kind of people,' said US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte, adding they 'want to destroy our way of life.' [Whose way of life? US or Pakistani?]
The visiting envoy said the 'extremist threat' in Pakistan is a cause of great concern. 'It occurs not only in federally administered tribal areas but it has spread to the settled areas,' he told reporters in the southern city of Karachi at the end of his four-day visit to the country.
Pakistan's tribal areas are believed to be safe havens for al- Qaeda and Taliban militants, who fled to the area after the United States invaded Afghanistan in 2001. Initially, the foreign fighters and their local supporters used the region to launch cross-border attacks on NATO-led forces in Afghanistan.
[..] 'The White House and its team must now restrain themselves in further meddling in Pakistan's affairs. The people of Pakistan and their elected representatives must now be left alone to chalk out a brighter future for every one in the country,' wrote the liberal English-language newspaper The News.
Another English-newspaper, Dawn, said in an editorial that people had to 'suffer the wrath of the militants who identify the (Pakistani) state with the Americans. A discrete stance on the part of US might prove to be slightly more helpful.'
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