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Pakistan voices warnings over US 'surge' in Afghanistan

AFP, Islamabad
Pakistan stepped up warnings yesterday that an expected US decision to send tens of thousands more soldiers to Afghanistan could destabilise its insurgency-ridden southwest.
"Our only concern is that when US sends more troops to Afghanistan's Helmand area, if there will be influx of militants they will be moving to Baluchistan," Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani told a press conference.
President Barack Obama is widely expected to order more than 30,000 additional American troops into battle against an emboldened Taliban-led insurgency in Afghanistan when he unveils a new Afghan strategy next week.
"This is the concern that we already discussed with the US administration, that influx of militants towards Baluchistan should be taken care of otherwise that can destabilise Baluchistan," said Gilani, speaking in English.
"A stable Afghanistan is in Pakistan's interest - but at the same time we also do not want our country to be destabilised," said Gilani.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, US National Security Adviser James Jones and CIA director Leon Panetta have all travelled to Pakistan in the last month for a series of top-
level meetings.
"We have asked US administration to consult us in case of any paradigm shift in the policy... so that we can formulate our strategy accordingly," said the Pakistani prime minister.
Obama is due to unveil the new approach after weeks of deliberations and lay out an exit strategy for withdrawing forces with the war now into a ninth year since the September 11 attacks.
Security has drastically deteriorated in Pakistan since Islamabad joined the US-led "war on terror" and hundreds ofTaliban and al-Qaeda-linked militants fled into the country after the US-led invasion of Afghanistan.
Suicide attacks and bombings have killed more than 2,550 people in 29 months and around 2.000 troops have died fighting Islamist militants since 2002.
In the southwestern province of Baluchistan, hundreds of people have died in a separatist insurgency since 2004.
Obama is reportedly increasing pressure on Islamabad to fight not just militants who attack within Pakistan, but those using Pakistan as a base from which to fight the Kabul government and Western troops in Afghanistan.