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Summary State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said that there is no possibility of war with Pakistan.
Briefing the newsmen in Washington, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland ruled out any possibility of war with Pakistan.On the question that Karzai has said that Afghanistan will side with Pakistan in case of war with US, Nuland said “It is not an issue, because it is not going to happen.”She said that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her senior counterparts had a very frank and good conversation with the Pakistani authorities about the need to fight and talk with terrorists.She informed said that US has intensified Afghan-led efforts to clean out the safe heavens on the Afghanistan side of the border and we are looking to work with Pakistan to do more against the safe heavens on the Pakistani side“We are prepared to talk to those terrorists who come off the battlefield and respect the red lines drawn by the Afghan government for this process,” she said.She said that Secretary Clinton has specifically talked about the need for squeezing the Haqqani network and the ways in which we want Pakistanis to take a lead on it but the concern is that if Pakistan does not deal with this threat, it will come back to bite the Pakistan.We have a similar message when we were starting our work together against al-Qaeda, which has been quite successful, she said.She said that we had a very timely and serious consultation about Haqqani network in Pakistan and it is now time to move forward with the agreed work plan and with concrete actionMeanwhile, reacting to Karzai saying that Afghanistan would side with Pakistan in a war with the US, the White House spokesman Jay Carney said: “I don’t have any reaction beyond that our relationship with Pakistan is complicated but important. Our cooperation with Pakistan continues and is vital to our efforts to combat al Qaeda. And, I mean, that’s a hypothetical that doesn’t have a lot of bearing on current reality.
