FM Qureshi says no need of foreign troops, strikes in Pakistan

Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has stressed that there should be no foreign troops or US missile strikes on Pakistani soil. Qureshi in an interview to British television said US strategy in Pakistan and Afghanistan in recent years has not worked. He said he was optimistic about US President Barack Obama's "different" approach, which is to be unveiled in coming days. He said Mr Obama understood the global impact of success or failure in the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taleban. He stressed that there should be no foreign troops or US missile strikes on Pakistani soil. "Washington is rethinking because Washington thinks that the strategy that they had adopted over the last seven to eight years has not worked," Mr Qureshi said. "To what extent have they succeeded in Afghanistan, that is the litmus test. Forget our weaknesses, what have you done there?" the minister added.

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