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Obama vows no hot pursuit by US troops into Pakistan

AFP, Washington
President Barack Obama ruled out sending US troops on a hot pursuit of extremists across the Afghan border into Pakistan -- but demanded Islamabad hold up its end of the anti-terror struggle.
Referring to US missile strikes on militants. Obama said in a television interview broadcast Sunday:" If we have a high-value target within our sights, after consulting with Pakistan, we re going after them."
But asked on CBS programme "Face the Nation" if he would order US troops on the ground into militant safe havens inside Pakistan. Obama stressed: "No.
"Our plan does not change the recognition of Pakistan as a sovereign government.' he said. We need to work with them and through them to deal with al-Qaeda. But we have to hold them much more accountable."
Obama on Friday put Pakistan at the centre of the Tight against al-Qaeda as part
of a new strategy dispatching 4.000 more troops, in addition to an extra 17,000 already committed, and billions of dollars to the Afghan war.
Asked if this was now his personal war. Obama said: "1 think it’s/America's war."
And the focus over the last seven years I think has been lost. What we want to do is to refocus attention on al-Qaeda," he said in a reference to predecessor George W. Bush's diversion of resources to Iraq.
"We are going to root out their networks. their bases. We are going to make sure that they cannot attack US citizens. US soil, US interests, and our allies' interests around the world.”
With Pakistan subject to a renewed US focus. Defence Secretary Robert Gates urged its powerful intelligence service to cut contacts with extremists in Afghanistan, which he called an "existential threat" to Pakistan itself.
Pakistan's Directorate for InterServices Intelligence has had links with
extremists "for a long time, as a hedge against what might happen in Afghanistan if we were to walk away or whatever." hesaidon "Fox News Sunday."
" They can count on us and they don’t need that hedge," Gates said, citing the ISTs links specifically to the al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani militant network and to the forces of Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.
Obama said reports of ISI links to Afghan extremists "aren't new," and attacked the notion "among the average Pakistani that this is somehow America's war and that they are not invested."
"And that attitude 1 think has led to a steady creep of extremism in Pakistan that is the greatest threat to the stability of the Pakistan government, and ultimately the greatest threat to the Pakistani people."
Obama said his planned tripling of US aid for Pakistan would strengthen the nuclear-armed nation's economy and basic services, and so erode support for terrorism.