PRESIDENT Barack Obama 's new Afghan war plan will heap pressure on Pakistan to dismantle Taliban Alqaeda sanctuaries but the embattled government fears the surge could spark further instability.
Announcing his strategy for turning around the eight year war in Afghanistan , Obama pledged to send 30,000 more troops to the battlefield,but set a timetable for a gradual US withdrawal starting in 2011 July.
He said in his speech that success in Afghanistan was "inextricably linked"to Pakistan,which saw a flood of militants enter its lawless borderlands after the Taliban were ousted from Afghanistan in 2001 .
There was no immediate official govt. reaction , but speaking to reporters in europe hours before Obama's speech. Foreign minister Shah Mehmood Quraishi expressed caution over the fresh deployment of US forces.
"Our issue is not that the US is increasing its troops in Afghanistan or not how they deploy them."
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