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Summary US urged greater action by Pakistan against militant group blamed for Afghan attacks.
The United States on Wednesday urged greater action by Pakistan against a militant group that Afghanistan blamed for an unprecedented massacre against its Shiite minority.State Department spokesman Mark Toner also confirmed that one US citizen was among the dead in Tuesdays twin attacks, which Afghan President Hamid Karzai blamed on the banned Pakistani extremist movement Lashkar-i-Jhangvi.Fifty-five people were killed in Kabul on Tuesday and another four in a similar attack in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif.Toner said the United States did not know the full details of the attacks but that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had Lashkar-i-Jhangvi in mind when she urged Pakistan to act against extremists during an October visit to Islamabad.Its precisely the kind of organization that the Secretary was trying to address when she went to Pakistan in calling for Pakistan to do more to combat this kind of extremist terrorist activity within its own borders, Toner told reporters.Pointing out that Lashkar-i-Jhangvi has been blamed for attacks in Pakistan as well, Toner said: Its clearly a threat to both countries.
