US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday ruled out any unilateral action against safe havens of militants inside Pakistan saying, “We want action against them in concert with our strategic partners like Pakistan.”During her round-table talks with anchor persons of various TV channels here, she responded to various questions on Pakistan-USA relations, particularly their joint efforts to fight the war on terror.
When asked if the United States was pondering to send its troops inside Pakistan, she categorically said this option was not being considered. “We don’t want to take action unilaterally, we want to act in concert with our strategic partners like Pakistan and other allies.”
Replying to a question regarding her reported warning to Islamabad,Secretary Clinton said the warning was: “If we don’t handle safe havens together the consequences could be terrific to both the USA and Pakistan.”
In response to another query about earlier allegations by the outgoing American military chief that a Pakistani intelligence agency was involved in attack on the US embassy in Kabul through militants of Haqqani network, she categorically said,” We have no evidence of that.”
Responding to a question about the action against the militants, she said,”action has to take different forms, it is not only the military action.”