Obama Afghanistan Speech updates :- Al Qaeda wants to occupy Pakistani nukes: Obama.
US President Barack Obama says that success in Afghanistan is linked to Pakistan. Obama made an announcement to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan and said that Al Qaeda wants to occupy Pakistan’s nukes.
Obama maintained that Pakistan faced the biggest threat from militancy. Announcing the new Afghan Policy Obama observed that US didn’t want to occupy any country but would fight for the safety of other countries and its own. “Security situation in Pakistan and Afghanistan is not satisfactory and Al Qaeda is plotting new attack. US is forced to stay and fight in Afghanistan and can not pull out its troops from there at this stage,” he added. Obama told that US troops’ pull out from Afghanistan would start after 18months, adding that US was ready to negotiate with Taliban who are ready to surrender. US President said that Pakistani people should know that US was the biggest supporter of their security and wanted a strong democracy there. “America has given the maximum aid for IDPs. We don’t want confrontation with Islamic countries,” he explained.
was first posted on December 2, 2009 at 11:54 am.
