Gen. Nicholson: Pakistan Hasn't Stemmed Terrorism in Afghanistan
By Anthony Capaccio, Bloomberg: ““The Pakistanis have been engaged in a very tough fight against extremism inside their own country,” Army General John Nicholson, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, told reporters Tuesday. “They did displace many of those terrorists who were fighting their own government. But at the same time, we’ve seen the ones who weren’t displaced were the Afghan Taliban” and the affiliated Haqqani network, he said.”
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