By NNN-PTI,
Washington : Pakistani military now recognises that extremism poses existential threat to them, the US has said, a day after reports that a top Taliban leader has been arrested in a joint CIA-ISI operation.
The remarks came soon after US President Barack Obama held an hour-long situation room meeting with his top national security aide on Afghanistan and Pakistan.
“One of the updates that the President got today was a discussion about our military cooperation with Pakistan and the recognition on the Pakistani military side that extremists in their country posed not simply a threat but an existential threat to them,” White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters at his daily news briefing yesterday.
For the past one year, the Obama Administration had been trying to convince Pakistan that it is violent extremism and not India that pose existential threat to them.