05 August 2016

News Story: Pakistan says to continue taking action against all terrorist groups despite retract of U.S. aid

ISLAMABAD, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan said on Thursday it is taking action against all the terrorist groups without any distinction hours after the U.S. defence department said it will not pay Pakistan 300 million U.S. dollars in military aid.

A Pentagon spokesman, Adam Stump, has said that Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter had decided against making a certification to Congress stating that Pakistan is taking sufficient action against the Haqqani network, a Taliban affiliate blamed for attacks on U.S. and allied personnel in Afghanistan, Washington Post has reported.

Commenting on the Pentagon's decision not to provide 300 million dollars to Pakistan in military reimbursements, Foreign Office Spokesperson Nafees Zakariya Pakistan is taking action against all the terrorist groups without any distinction.

"Pakistan has suffered more than any other country in the war on terror both in terms of human and economic losses. Sixty thousand people including six thousand security personnel have lost their lives in this war," the spokesman said at his weekly news briefing in Islamabad.

He said the operation in North Waziristan tribal region has seen a resounding success due to which last bastions of terrorists in the tribal areas have been cleared.

Read the full story at Xinhua