U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has wrapped
up her crucial visit to Islamabad, with mounting pressure on Pakistan
for "taking decisive steps in the days ahead against al-Qaida and
Taliban leaders."
"We will do our part and we look to the government
of Pakistan to take decisive steps in the days ahead. Joint action
against al-Qaida and its affiliates will make Pakistan, America, and
the world safer and more secure," Clinton told reporters on Friday
after talks with Pakistani leaders.
She used "days ahead" not weeks or months for the
"decisive steps" which means the U.S. wanted Pakistan to act in days to
end the trouble in relationship caused by the presence of Osama bin
Laden in a Pakistani garrison city.
Visible tense and exhausted in her media interaction
and flanked by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael
Mullen, the U.S. secretary of state said "Osama bin Laden is dead, but
al-Qaida and its syndicate of terror remain a serious threat to us
both."
The U.S. ABC News has reported that Hillary Clinton
handed over a list of five most wanted militant leaders to Pakistan
during a four-hour meeting with Pakistan's political and military
leaders.
The list includes two senior al-Qaida figures, Ayman
al- Zawahiri, Atiya Abdel Rahman, Afghan Taliban reclusive leader
Mullah Omar, Haqqani network commander Sirajuddin Haqqani and Ilyas
Kashmiri of the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI). Kashmiri is
considered the man who masterminded the audacious attack on Pakistan's
major navy air base in Karachi on Sunday. Xinhua
