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Islamabad Rejects U.S. Exhortations To Do More Against Terrorists

December 08 2017

Pakistan

Pakistani officials told visiting U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis earlier this week that the government would no longer heed American demands that Islamabad do more against alleged terrorist safe havens on its territory, say sources cited by the Express Tribune (Pakistan).

The officials reportedly told the secretary that Pakistan would not conduct joint operations on its territory. They stressed that any evidence regarding the presence of terrorist groups on Pakistani...

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