The United States has again charged Pakistan of providing “refuge” to Taliban militants fighting American and NATO troops in neighboring Afghanistan. “The Taliban increased its insurgency in 2006. It’s a real problem,” US Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said. “There is a problem of forces coming from Pakistan into Afghanistan to attack and then to return to Pakistan to seek refuge and refitting,” he said at a media briefing on US efforts to frame a new strategy in Afghanistan with NATO to ward off the renewed Taliban threat. Full Story