THAROOR 2 LAST

US has announced sending 30,000 additional troops to
Afghanistan for containing insurgency and securing key
population centres there.

Tharoor said that continued military pressure on
Taliban and Al-Qaeda was an extremely important security
component of the challenges faced by Afghanistan.
Refusing to comment on details of the US President's
speech, Tharoor said, "it (Af-Pak policy) is the overall
approach of continued engagement and focus on dealing with the
every real security dangers faced by Afghanistan."
Tharoor said India believed that entire international
community has a stake in continued stability of Afghanistan
and success of the Hamid Karzai government in establishing his
authority through out the country.
He added that India was making contribution in
Afghanistan in a different way by building roads, hospitals,
clinics and laying down power supply lines there. PTI AJD
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