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Pakistan-US agree on team to redesign anti-terror strategy

Holbrooke holds talks with Pak president, PM

AFP, Islamabad
Pakistan and the United States agreed yesterday to set up a joint team to review policy and formulate a new strategy to counter extremism, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shalt Mehmood Qureshi said.
He was speaking after talks with Richard Holbrooke, US President Barack Obama's envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, who has embarked on a major US policy review hoping to turn around the war against the Taliban and al-Qaeda.
"What we have today agreed upon is that a team, an inter-agency team, will be led by ambassador 1 lolbrooke from their side and on the Pakistan side it will be led by the foreign minister," Qureshi said.
"This team will sit down and review all die policies and design the new strategy because they feel that for any futuristic strategy which is effective in Pakistan, it
cannot be done in isolation. Pakistan has to be on board."
Pakistan called yesterday for dialogue to "combat terrorism" and expressed concern about military action against Islamist militants in its first talks with US President Barack Obama's regional envoy.
Richard Holbrooke, considered die architect of peace in Bosnia, heard criticism from a civilian government worried that US missile strikes against militants in Pakistan will exacerbate its domestic problems and unpopularity.
Holbrooke, embarking on a massive US policy review to turn around the war against the Taliban and al-Qaeda, met Pakistan President Asif All Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi.
"It's an orientation visit. Pakistan conveyed that military action is not the
only soludon. We should look for dialogue and development also as a too) to combat terrorism." a foreign ministry official told AFP.
"They also conveyed their concern about the drone attacks and told them diis is counter-productive. He took note. He expects to talk to die administration and then come back, this is his very first interacdon," he said.
Since August, there have been dozens of missile strikes, believed to be launched from CIA drones, targeting militants on Pakistani territory whom US officials accuse of waging attacks across the border in Afghanistan.
US President Obama called Monday for a combined effort to eradicate al-Qaeda safe havens in Afghanistan and the border region with Pakistan, expressing concern over an Afghan government that "seems very detached."