‘US wants IDPs settled before action in Waziristan’
Although Mr Holbrooke said it could be beneficial to have simultaneous offensives -- the US Marines on the Afghan side and the Pakistani army in Fata -- the greater concern is unfinished business elsewhere. ‘Why would I push them to start an offensive when they have two million people they have to protect first?’ the US envoy said. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala - via NewsRack (Pakistan)
Too many contradictory claims in the story and it's hard to really assess or weigh-in what's really going on.