Nato's chief piled pressure on Pakistan on Friday to step up the fight against "terrorists" enjoying safe havens in the border region with Afghanistan. Amid growing US pressure for Pakistan to take action against al Qaeda-linked extremists, Nato Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen called for a "positive engagement" from Islamabad to ensure stability in Afghanistan.
"We encourage the Pakistani military and the Pakistani government to do its utmost to fight extremism and terrorism in the border region," Rasmussen said at a defence forum hosted by the European Policy Centre think tank. "It is really a security problem for our troops in Afghanistan that terrorists have safe havens, and that's a fact, in Pakistan," he said. "We have to deal with that and it's in our mutual interest to deal with that." "That's a reason why we have conveyed that clear message to Pakistan authorities."
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