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US, India, Pakistan face 'common militant threat'

Says Holbrooke

AFP, New Delhi
The newly-appointed US envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan said yesterday that Islamist militancy presented the same security risks to both the United States and South Asia.
"India, the United States and Pakistan all have a common threat now," Richard Holbrooke told reporters in New Delhi.
"For the first time in 60 years since independence, your country (India) and Pakistan and the United States all face an enemy that poses a direct threat to our leadership, our capitals and our people."
His comments came after the Pakistan government signed an agreement with Islamic hardliners to enforce sharia law in part of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province.
Holbrooke, appointed to implement a new US strategy in South Asia under President Barack Obama, was in New Delhi at the end of a regional tour that included visits to Islamabad and Kabul.
Holbrooke met Indian leaders on Monday for talks that focused on the global threat from Pakistan-based militants in the wake of die Mumbai attacks.
Holbrooke, the new US envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan, arrived in New Delhi late on Sunday as part of a regional tour aftervisits to Islamabad and Kabul.
He was appointed to implement a new US strategy in South Asia under President Barack Obama, who plans to boost troop numbers in Afghanistan and to force Islamabad to eradicate al-Qaeda safe havens inside Pakistan.
Holbrooke, a former ambassador to the United Nations, held discussions with
Indian foreign policy advisers and was later scheduled for talks with Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee.
"We will share our perceptions, and terrorism emanating from Pakistan will be part of that," an Indian official told AFP ahead of the meetings. "We think the Pakistan establishment is key when talking about terrorism."
India has labelled Pakistan the "epicentre of terrorism" in the region and has accused it of sheltering Islamic groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba, which is widely blamed for November's attacks on Mumbai.
New Delhi has noted with strong approval that Holbrooke's tour coincided with Islamabad's admission that part of the Mumbai attacks, in which 165 people were killed, was indeed planned in Pakistan.