WASHINGTON: The US has acknowledged that India as a "great regional power" has a very high degree of interest in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region. Washington is now pushing Islamabad to move more troops from the Indian border to the "epicentre of terrorism in western Pakistan".
"These are the men who killed (former Pakistan premier) Benazir (Bhutto), who did Mumbai, who attacked the cricket team in Lahore, who attacked the United States. The epicentre of this area is in western Pakistan," a top US official told the Senate Foreign Relations committee on Tuesday.
"Pakistani military has to take back the west and that's where we are today as we hold this important hearing," the US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke said.
However, he declined to comment on what the US can do to urge India to ease its tensions with Pakistan to help Pakistani military give up its 'obsession' with India.
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