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US Likely to Tell Pak to Avoid India-centric Policies: Reports

The US National Security Advisor General James Jones and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Leon Panetta, who are in Islamabad are likely to deliver President Barack Obama’s message that the Pakistan government must do away with its India centric policy, said media reports.

Jones and Panetta, president’s top two advisors, are in Pakistan to press the Gilani government ‘do more’ in the botched Times Square bombing plot investigations.

During their meeting with Pakistan’s military and civilian leadership, the US delegation is likely to instruct Islamabad to avoid its India-centric approach and focus more on the ‘war on terror’, reported ‘The Daily Times’ quoting an unnamed top Pakistani official.

The official said that though the meeting would centre around the Times Square bombing plot, the US officials would broach upon some other significant issues as well, reports said,

In recent weeks, the US has bluntly warned Pakistan of ‘severe consequences’ if any future terror attack on the US is traced back to Pakistan.

Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi had also admitted that the bungled New York terror plot had soured the relationship between both countries.

Since the Times Square incident, the US has been demanding that Pakistan initiate a military offensive in the terror hot bed North Waziristan without wasting much time.

However, during a meeting between President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and the Army Chief General Pervaz Kayani, which was held last week, it was decided that Islamabad would not bow down to any pressure from the White House.

(Based on internet reports)

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