His meetings with the Pakistani leaders came hours after President Obama asserted that the US will not allow "safe havens" to be used by Al-Qaeda and Taliban in tribal areas and made it clear that Islamabad needs to act against terror.
"My bottom line is that we cannot allow al-Qaeda to operate. We cannot have those safe havens in that region,"
Obama said in his first press conference in Washington after assuming office on January 20.
The sources here were also quoted as saying that Qureshi had brought up the Kashmir issue with Holbrooke. Qureshi reportedly said that the long-standing issue needs to be resolved.
Zardari reportedly told Holbrooke that the US should share information on militant hideouts in the tribal areas so
that Pakistani security forces could take action against them. The drone attacks, he said, were counter-productive for the war on terror.
The President said that the Pakistani forces need more resources to fight militancy in the tribal areas and along the Afghan border.
Image: Richard Holbrooke attends a meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Islamabad on February 10, 2009.
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