Pak frontier region haven for terror: Obama

Wednesday, March 4, 2009 at 11:03 am

President Barack Obama has expressed deep US concern about the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Pakistan, Washington’s increasingly besieged ally in the campaign against terrorism.

“Obviously, we are deeply concerned,” Obama told reporters on Tuesday (March 3) as he met British Prime Minister Gordon Brown after attackers armed with guns and grenades killed eight people and wounded seven members of the Sri Lankan squad in Lahore.

Saying “the details are still coming in so I don’t want to be too specific,” Obama wanted instead to make a general point about joint US-British efforts to keep terrorism at bay. “Both Great Britain and the United States share a deep interest in ensuring that neither (…) Afghanistan or
Pakistan are safe havens for terrorist activity,” the president said.

He said the “truth is that the situation in Afghanistan has deteriorated” even though Washington and London have cooperated well to improve conditions as the first and second biggest foreign troop contributors there.

“The safe havens for Al-Qaeda remain in the frontier regions of Pakistan,” Obama said, referring to the other side of the Afghan border.

(With inputs from agencies)

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Pak frontier region haven for terror: Obama

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