Reply #1: Crackdown extended to more tribes

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http://www.hipakistan.com/en/detail.php?newsId=en41328&F_catID=13&f_type=source&day=0


PESHAWAR: Pakistan on Friday extended a
crackdown on tribesmen accused of sheltering
Taliban and al-Qaeda sympathisers on the Afghan
border, arresting another 10 people.

Today, provincial authorities started seizing
vehicles, sealing shops and arresting members of
two more Pashtun tribes who have been asked to
surrender 12 men on suspicion they had been
harbouring Taliban or al-Qaeda militants. The
action follows a similar operation against
another tribe that had been asked by the
authorities to hand over three tribesmen for the
same offence.

Islamabad has come under increasing pressure from
the United States to seal its border and prevent
Taliban militants using Pakistan as a base for
attacks on Afghanistan. The government and
military officials from Afghanistan, the United
States and Pakistan met in Rawalpindi to discuss
cooperation in operations in the border area.

Afghan foreign ministry spokesman Omar Samad, who
attended the meeting, told reporters in Kabul
that his government welcomed Pakistan’s latest
operations, and both the Afghan and American
sides had offered to cooperate.