Department of Defense Supports Pakistan's Anti-Taliban Operations, Hopes for Sustained Effort

[The following article originally appeared in DefenseLink, 28 April 2009.]

Defense leaders are "clearly pleased" to see the Pakistani military take action against increasingly emboldened Taliban forces and have offered additional support if Pakistan's government will accept it to promote a sustained effort, Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell said today. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Administration Mike Mullen, and others have expressed "a very real concern" about the eroding security situation in Pakistan in recent weeks, Morrell told reporters.

   They and others in this building were clearly pleased to see the
   Pakistan military take the initiative over the past couple of days
   and push back against the militants who had been encroaching ever
   further toward Islamabad, he said. … 

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