Pak needs to do more on curbing Taliban: Holbrooke

New Delhi, Jan 18 (PTI) On a day Taliban carried out a
fresh attack near the Presidential Palace in Kabul, the US
on Monday said Pakistan would have to take "more actions" to
curb the activities of the extremist group which operates from
Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

US Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard
Holbrooke discussed the situation in these countries with
Indian External Affairs Minister S M Krishna, Foreign
Secretary Nirupama Rao and some other top officials here, amid
emphasis that India has a "tremendously important"
participation in the stability in the region.
Holbrooke, who arrived here after his visits to the
AF-Pak region, briefed the Indian leadership about his
discussions in those countries and "solicit" its views.
He later said the spread of Taliban in the North-West
Frontier Province (NWFP) areas was the "main subject" of
discussion with Pakistani leadership during his visit there.
"Of course we have. That was the main subject of our
discussion with Pakistan," he told reporters here when asked
whether he had talked to Pakistan leaders about the need to
curb activities of Taliban operating out of NWFP.
"I was in Swat a few days ago and I was very impressed
with the progress and they have done things in South
Waziristan. But there are other issues that we have talked
about, which I hope will see more actions on," he said.
On Monday's attack, he said it was the handiwork of
those who are a "part of extremist groups operating in the
border areas between Afghanistan and Pakistan and they do
these desperate things all the time and India knows all this."
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