‘Taliban a common threat’ for India, US and Pakistan
‘Taliban a common threat’ for India, US and Pakistan
New Delhi: US envoy Richard Holbrooke met Indian officials, stressing that their country, the US and Pakistan face a common threat from Islamic guerrilla groups.
Holbrooke, 67, met foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi on Monday as he ended an initial tour in his new job as special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Speaking to reporters, Holbrooke said that, as guerrillas of the Islamic Taliban movement have seized broader swathes of Pakistani territory, your country and Pakistan and the US, all face an enemy which poses direct threats to our leadership, our capitals and our people.
Britain last week appointed its ambassador to Afghanistan, Sherard Cowper-Coles, to a similar post.
Under the Bill Clinton administration, Holbrooke was the chief architect of the 1995 Dayton accords that ended the war in Bosnia that followed the collapse of Yugoslavia.
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