United States has warned Pakistan that the US will not allow to continue the attacks on US forces from Pakistan-based insurgents like the Haqqani Network.
Talking to media US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said that
Pakistani government has so far failed to take action against the
Haqqani Network, adding that now US itself would take action to stop
such kind of deadly attacks.
On the other side the US Ambassador in Afghanistan Ryan C Kroker has
said that the attackers of US Embassy and NATO Headquarters have taken
refuge in Pakistan.
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta expressed frustration with
Islamabad, pointing to the 20-hour assault against the U.S. Embassy and
NATO headquarters in Kabul that finally ended Wednesday, Panetta said
it is unacceptable that the Haqqanis are able to launch such deadly
attacks and then flee to safe havens across the border in Pakistan.
“The message they need to know is: we’re going to do everything we
can to defend our forces,” Panetta told reporters traveling with him to
San Francisco for meetings with Australian officials.
He refused to say whether the U.S. plans to take any new military
actions, but there has been an escalating U.S. campaign of drone
strikes into Pakistan’s border regions.
He said that time and again we have urged the Pakistanis to exercise
their influence over these kinds of attacks from the Haqqanis’ and we
have made very little progress in that area.
“I’m not going to talk about how we’re going to respond, we are not going to allow these types of attacks to go on.”
US officials have blamed the Haqqani network for the nearly daylong
assault on the heavily guarded Afghan capital. The attack left 27 dead,
including police, civilians and attackers, officials said.
Panetta said that the Pakistani government has so far failed to
crack down on Haqqani network militants that Washington suspects
carried out Tuesday’s attack.
He stated that “I’m very concerned about the Haqqani attacks
because, number one, they’re killing people, they’re killing our
forces. “But number two, they escape back into what is a safe haven in
Pakistan. And that’s unacceptable, so the message they need to know is
that we’re going to do everything we can to defend our forces he added.” SANA
