[ti:US Demands More Progress by Pakistan in Afghan War]
[ar:Steve Ember]
[al: IN THE NEWS]
[by:www.21voa.com]
[00:00.00]This is IN THE NEWS
[00:05.07]in VOA Special English.
[00:08.45]This week, President Obama
[00:10.59]released a progress report
[00:12.73]on the Afghan war,
[00:14.47]now in its tenth year.
[00:16.71]The five-page summary
[00:18.80]of the Afghanistan
[00:20.00]and Pakistan Annual Review says
[00:23.78]"there are notable
[00:25.67]operational gains."
[00:27.16]For example, the president
[00:29.65]welcomed major Pakistani offensives
[00:32.88]in the tribal areas.
[00:34.92]But he said progress
[00:36.52]has not come fast enough.
[00:38.91]BARACK OBAMA: "So we will continue
[00:40.01]to insist to Pakistani leaders
[00:41.36]that terrorist safe havens
[00:43.31]within their borders
[00:44.40]must be dealt with."
[00:45.80]Afghan Interior Minister
[00:47.50]Rehman Malik dismissed
[00:49.19]criticism of his country.
[00:50.83]REHMAN MALIK: "If you see
[00:52.07]the statistics in terms
[00:53.22]of the casualties and injuries,
[00:55.46]it is Pakistan which has suffered
[00:57.70]the most in the world.
[00:58.70]We have done a lot.
[01:00.20]We are suffering in terms
[01:02.04]of our economy and obviously it is
[01:05.37]affecting our common man
[01:07.37]in the country."
[01:08.22]Most suspected American missile
[01:10.86]strikes in Pakistan have taken place
[01:13.19]in North Waziristan.
[01:14.79]The United States believes
[01:17.47]the Haqqani network of
[01:19.82]the Afghan Taliban
[01:20.92]has established bases there.
[01:23.61]The American ambassador
[01:25.80]in Islamabad said Friday that
[01:28.53]the United States has been talking
[01:30.62]closely with Pakistan
[01:32.46]about launching an offensive
[01:34.96]in North Waziristan.
[01:36.50]But Ambassador Cameron Munter says
[01:39.79]Pakistani forces are stretched
[01:42.38]too thin to launch it now.
[01:44.62]President Obama said
[01:46.91]the review shows
[01:48.05]that the United States
[01:49.54]and its partners are "on track"
[01:52.08]to reach their goals.
[01:53.83]He said the goal is not
[01:56.47]to defeat every single threat
[01:58.91]to Afghan security.
[02:00.75]BARACK OBAMA: "We are focused
[02:01.70]on disrupting, dismantling
[02:03.40]and defeating al-Qaida
[02:05.80]in Afghanistan and Pakistan,
[02:08.04]and preventing its capacity
[02:09.73]to threaten America and
[02:12.02]our allies in the future."
[02:13.16]The Taliban said the review
[02:15.35]was propaganda designed
[02:17.35]to create "baseless hope."
[02:19.34]The United States currently
[02:21.73]has about one hundred thousand
[02:23.82]troops in Afghanistan.
[02:25.31]The plan is for American troops
[02:28.65]to begin leaving in July
[02:30.79]and for Afghans to control
[02:33.23]their own security
[02:34.67]by the end of twenty-fourteen.
[02:37.31]Mr. Obama said for "security gains
[02:41.09]to be sustained over time,
[02:43.33]there is an urgent need
[02:45.67]for political and
[02:47.36]economic progress in Afghanistan."
[02:50.35]A new survey by the Washington Post
[02:53.93]and ABC News found that
[02:56.87]sixty percent of Americans now
[02:59.51]think the war is not worth fighting.
[03:02.40]On Monday, the president
[03:04.59]lost his special representative
[03:07.13]for Afghanistan and Pakistan,
[03:09.62]appointed in January of last year.
[03:12.15]Richard Holbrooke died
[03:14.79]at the age of sixty-nine.
[03:16.58]Last Friday he suffered a torn aorta,
[03:20.42]a large artery that
[03:22.75]carries blood from the heart to the body.
[03:25.19]President Obama called
[03:27.53]Richard Holbrooke "one of the giants
[03:29.87]of American foreign policy."
[03:32.11]Anthony Dworkin is an analyst
[03:35.49]for the European Council
[03:37.20]on Foreign Relations.
[03:38.94]ANTHONY DWORKIN: "He made enemies
[03:40.23]but he also got things done
[03:41.77]and in that sense he was
[03:43.02]a very effective negotiator."
[03:44.26]Mr. Holbrooke began
[03:46.15]as a foreign service officer
[03:47.90]in Vietnam in nineteen sixty-two.
[03:50.98]He may be remembered most
[03:53.27]for negotiating the peace deals
[03:55.36]that ended the wars
[03:57.15]in the former Yugoslavia.
[03:59.34]Those deals included
[04:01.48]the nineteen ninety-five
[04:03.32]peace agreement for Bosnia.
[04:05.51]The talks took place
[04:07.65]at an Air Force base near
[04:09.74]the American city of Dayton, Ohio.
[04:12.48]Haris Silajdzic, a member
[04:15.57]of Bosnia's three-member presidency,
[04:18.20]took part in those talks
[04:20.14]and praised Richard Holbrooke's
[04:22.74]diplomatic skill.
[04:23.99]HARIS SILAJDZIC: "The world has lost
[04:25.13]a very able diplomat.
[04:27.82]We need good people all over the world
[04:34.29]to prevent wars and to make peace.
[04:38.12]He was one of the best."
[04:40.76]Mr. Holbrooke's deputy,
[04:42.80]Frank Ruggiero,
[04:43.44]is now acting in his place.
[04:46.23]And that's IN THE NEWS
[04:48.32]in VOA Special English.
[04:51.42]I'm Steve Ember.
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