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| Progress made but long way to go in Pakistan: US |
| Lalit K Jha/ PTI / Washington Jun 30, 2009, 12:57 IST |
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The United States today said that there has been "some progress" in the war against terrorism in Pakistan, but there is still a long way to go to eliminate the threat from extremists groups.
"I think we have seen some progress," White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters at his daily press briefing.
"I think the events that have happened in Pakistan over the past several weeks have united many in the cause against extremism," he said.
"We obviously have a long way to go, but I think the administration believes that we are making important progress on that front," Gibbs said.
Replying to a question, Gibbs said the Obama Administration would like to see Osama bin Laden captured and brought to justice.
"I think, as I have said before, our policy is broader than one person or one individual. I think (National Security Advisor) General (James) Jones visited Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India over the course of the past week and spent time talking with the President on that issue as well as Honduras (on Sunday)," Gibbs said.
Earlier, US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Robert Blake said the Obama Administration is encouraged by the steps that the Pakistani government has taken inside Pakistan in the Swat Valley to confront the extremist challenge that Pakistan faces.
"We are also encouraged that those steps have, one, popular support among the Pakistani people because we think that that support will provide the basis for continued actions to ensure that the soil of Pakistan is not used as a base from which militants and extremists can attack neighboring countries," Blake said at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington-based think tank.
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