Will repeat action in Pakistan if needed: Obama
U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday risked fuelling anger in Pakistan after he said America would not hesitate to launch another unilateral military operation on Pakistani soil to flush out other al-Qaeda figures if it had information that they were hiding there. He said while his government respected Pakistan's sovereignty its first priority was to “secure the United States'' and this had been “made clear to the Pakistanis''. His remarks came barely days after the Pakistan's National Assembly adopted a strongly-worded resolution warning against any action similar to the one that killed Osama bin Laden when American commandos raided a compound in Abbottabad earlier this month without informing the Pakistani government. Asked by the BBC what he would do if another “high-value'' target such as the Taliban leader Mullah Omar was found in Pakistan, President Obama said: “I've already made clear to the Pakistanis that our job is to secure the United States. But I've made no secret and I said this when I was running for the presidency that if I had a clear shot of bin Laden we would take him.” Wake-up call In another remark that is not likely to go down well in Islamabad, Mr. Obama suggested that Pakistan had not been cooperating fully in fighting terror.
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