Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Pakistan's Security Worries Is Beginning To Worry Its Neighbors

This combo image released by Pakistan's Lahore police on Wednesday, March 4, 2009, shows sketches of suspect attackers who killed seven Pakistanis and injured six members of visiting Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore, Pakistan on Tuesday. England's match referee Chris Broad accused Pakistani police of abandoning the convoy carrying Sri Lanka's cricket team as a deadly militant ambush began. (AP Photo/Lahore Police)

Pakistan Poses Global Security Worry, Says Top US Official -- The Guardian

The top US diplomat in Kabul warned ­yesterday that Pakistan posed a bigger security challenge to America and the world than Afghanistan, as Islamabad grappled with the latest terrorist attack on its soil and the escalating Taliban ­insurgency on its north-western border.

Christopher Dell, who currently runs the US embassy in Kabul, was speaking in the aftermath of the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore and the news that Pakistani Taliban groups had formed a common front to attack Nato troops in Afghanistan, in what is widely expected to be a bloody and possibly ­decisive summer this year.

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More News On Pakistan

A Dangerous Void in Pakistan -- Yale Global
Pakistan a greater threat to world than Afghanistan -- Canberra Times
Gates calls Pakistan 'most worrisome' -- CNN
Gates Says Militant Sanctuaries Pose Biggest Afghanistan Threat -- Bloomberg
Taliban Pak havens Afghanistan's main obstacle -- Press TV
Doomsday nation (Pakistan) -- Australian

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