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Pak PM calls for political solution to terror fight

Bush waives law to give millions to Pak anti-terror fight

AFP, Islamabad/Washington
Pakistan's new premier told US President George W. Bush that a broader approach to the "war on terror" is necessary, including political solutions and development programmes, a statement said.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, a senior official from the party of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, made the call for a rethink in policy when Bush telephoned him on Tuesday to congratulate him on taking office.
His comments came after former premier Nawaz Sharif told two
US envoys on Tuesday that the new government would review President Pervez Musharraf's "one-man" anti-terror strategy and focus on Pakistan's needs.
Gilani told Bush "that Pakistan would continue to fight terrorism in all its forms and manifestations since it is in Pakistan's own national interest," said a statement issued late Tuesday by his office.
"However, he said that a comprehensive approach is required in this regard, specially combining a political approach with developmentprogrammes," it added.
Gilani said that Pakistan was
FROM PAGE 16 “committed to maintaining long term close ties with the USA."
The White House said earlier tha Bush told Gilani he was ready to wori with him and that they both stressec the need to fight Islamist extremism.
Gilani met visiting Deputy US Secretary’ of State John Negroponte and Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher later Wednesday, a day after they met Musharraf and Sharif, his office said.
Analysts said the US visit was designed to woo the new government and smooth relations between it and Musharraf, amid fears that instability in the nuclear-armed nation will hurt efforts to tackle Islamic militancy.
Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party and Sharifs grouping trounced Musharrafs allies in elections in February’, a seismic shift in the country's politics nearly nine years after Musharraf seized power in a coup.
Pakistan has been a bulwark in the US-led fight against al-Qaeda and Taliban militants since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. More than 600 people have died in militant-related violence this year in Pakistan.
Previous attempts at peace deals with militants in the tribal belt bor-denng Afghanistan, which the US says is a safe haven for al-Qaeda, have collapsed with further bloodshed and caused alarm in Washington.
The US has pledged 750 million dollars over the next five years for development in the lawless and impoverished tribal regions.
President George W Bush has cleared the way for giving millions of dollars to Pakistan to fight terrorism this year, the White House said Tuesday as a new government took pow er in Islamabad.
In a memo to the secretary of state dated Monday, Bush used his authority to exempt Pakistan from a law that restricts funding countries where the legitimate head of state was deposed by a military coup, as in Pakistan.
The waiver, which Bush has approved every year since 2003, opens the way for the United States to provide about 300 million dollars this year to key "war on terror" ally Pakistan to boost its counterterrorism operations.
US President on Tuesday told Pakistan's new Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani he was ready to work with him as they both stressed the need to fight Islamist extremism, the White House said.