Why Can't Pakistan Clear Its Terrorist Safe Havens? Envoy Explains. (Video) -- Christian Science Monitor
The US and Pakistan are stuck in an unsatisfactory arrangement where neither side gets what it wants, the envoy says: no Pakistani crackdown on North Waziristan, and ongoing US drone strikes.
Pakistan, following its own national security interests, will resist US pressure to launch a military campaign against terrorist groups in its North Waziristan region that target US forces in neighboring Afghanistan.
And in the absence of a full-scale Pakistani assault, the US will continue to target militants in North Waziristan with drone strikes – as it did this week, killing at least seven suspected terrorists.
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