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Monday, May 16, 2011

US gives list of 'specific demands' to Pakistan over harboring militants suspicions

US Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman John Kerry has reportedly given Pakistan Army Chief General Ashfaq Kayani a list of "specific demands" relating to US suspicions about Pakistan's harboring of militants, a Pakistani official has said.
The official said that Kerry, who is currently in Pakistan, handed the list during his meeting with Kayani on Sunday, The Dawn reports.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity and declined to give more details because of the sensitivity of the subject.
Kerry is the first US emissary to visit Pakistan since the May 2 raid in Abbottabad city that killed Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.
US President Barack Obama had ordered a raid by a small team of US Special Forces, which found bin Laden, who had evaded capture for a decade, in a home in a fortified compound in Abbottabad.
Bin Laden, accused of being behind a number of atrocities, including the attacks on New York and Washington on 11 September 2001, was at the top of the US "most wanted" list. (ANI)