THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Pakistan needs to to understand that anti-Americanism and conspiracy theories will not end its problems, according to Hillary Clinton.
Mrs Clinton, the US secretary of state, on the first visit to Pakistan of a member of the Obama administration since the death of Osama bin Laden, said on Friday that both Washington and Islamabad need to do more to battle Islamist militancy and that relations between the two allies had reach a turning point.
"Pakistan should understand that anti-Americanism and conspiracy theories will not make the problem disappear," Mrs Clinton told a news conference following talks with Pakistan's military and civilian leaders.
Pakistan was left humiliated and angry after an American raid that killed bin Laden took place only two hours from the capital on May 2.
The unilateral operation has fuelled widespread anti-American sentiment in the country, which has long been high over a covert CIA drone war against militant commanders in the country's northwestern tribal belt.
Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, who accompanied Mrs Clinton in her meetings pleaded for greater co-operation between the two wary allies in the war against the Taliban and al-Qaeda. » | Friday, May 27, 2011
