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Clinton Warns Pakistan on Militants

HeadlineOct 21, 2011

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Pakistan today for a meeting with top Pakistani officials, including President Asif Ali Zardari. Clinton’s visit follows a trip to Afghanistan, where she warned of more unilateral actions inside Pakistan unless the Pakistani government follows U.S. demands to confront militants.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: “We must send a clear, unequivocal message to the government and the people of Pakistan that they must be part of the solution. And that means ridding their own country of terrorists who kill their own people and who cross the border to kill in Afghanistan. I think that how we increase that pressure, how we make that commitment, is the subject of the conversations that President Karzai and I have had and that I will have in Pakistan, but we’re looking to the Pakistanis to lead on this, because there is no place to go any longer.”

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