US again accuses Pakistan of providing “refuge” to Taliban
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