Pakistan prime minister today sought "more clarity" on president Barack Obama's new Afghan strategy of sending additional 30,000 US troops to fight resurgent Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan, saying military action is not the solution for problems.
Declining to endorse Obama's new Afghan strategy at a joint press conference with his British counterpart Gordon Brown, Yousuf Raza Gilani said, "Regarding the new policy of president Obama, we are studying that policy. We need more clarity on it, and when we get more clarity on it we can see what we can implement on that plan."
Pakistan will also look into the suggestion that more CIA resources would be deployed to Pakistan. Gilani said Pakistan was looking into the implications of the troop surge announced by Obama on Tuesday.
"I personally feel the military action is not the solution for problems. Therefore we must have an exit policy.
Military action is only 10%. The 90% is that you have to strengthen, you have to complement with the political decisions, the social, cultural input in those areas," Gilani said, a day after Obama announced his new policy on Afghanistan which included sending 30,000 additional troops and pledged to bring the US troops back by July 2011.
Brown announced an additional £50 million for Pakistan to rehabilitate the people who have been displaced by the ongoing fight between the Army and the Taliban in the country's northwest.
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