Pakistan has said it could focus on American demands to do more in the war on terror only if the US used its influence with India to lessen tensions and to press for resumption of the stalled composite dialogue process.
This was conveyed by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to visiting US National Security Advisor James Jones during a meeting in Islamabad on Friday as the two held wide-ranging talks on the regional security situation and bilateral cooperation. Gilani said Pakistan is fully committed to take its operations aimed at clearing its territory of terrorists and extremists to its logical conclusion but "its forces were over-stretched because of continuous tension on the eastern border" with India.
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Jones reportedly assured Gilani that US administration "fully recognised Pakistan's concerns about the long-term peace and security of South Asia and would keep urging the Indian leadership to return to composite dialogue".
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