Clinton says Pakistan should do more against terror | WPN World People News

A day after accusing Islamabad of not doing enough to book Hafiz Saeed, the Pakistan-based terrorist blamed for masterminding the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Tuesday called on Pakistan to do more to crack down on violent extremism.

Addressing a press conference in the Indian capital, Clinton said: "We look to the government of Pakistan to do more.."

"It needs to make sure that its territory is not used as a launching pad for terrorist attacks anywhere, including inside of Pakistan, because the great unfortunate fact is that terrorists in Pakistan have killed more than 30,000 Pakistanis," Clinton said on the third and last day of her India trip.

Flanked by Indian Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna, the US Secretary of State said that the US was "cooperating closely with India regarding the threats that emanate against them."

She also stressed on "more concerted and stronger steps" from governments in combating terrorism across the globe.

The US's top diplomat said her country has reason to believe that Saeed, the chief of the Jamaat ud Dawa was one of the "principal architects" of the Mumbai attack that claimed the lives of 166 people, including foreign tourists.

She also pointed to the discovery of a new plot linked to the Yemen-based Al Qaeda faction in the Arabian Peninsula to attack an airliner with an improved "underwear bomb".

"The device did not appear to pose a threat to the public air service, but the plot itself indicates that these terrorists keep trying, they keep trying to devise more and more perverse and terrible ways to kill innocent people," she said wrapping up an eight-day Asian trip that also took her to China and Bangladesh.

On Monday, she had said that Al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri was believed to be hiding in Pakistan.

Source: The Asia News.Net