US conveyed this to the Pakistani leadership which assured visiting Secretary of State John Kerry that there would be no distinction between the good and the bad terrorists.
"The proof is in the pudding, and I mean, it relies on kind of what actual operational steps are taken," a senior State Department official told reporters travelling with Kerry on his trip to Islamabad.
The official made the remarks when asked if the top Pakistani leadership gave any commitment to US on taking actions against terrorist outfits like the dreaded Haqqani network and Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Soon after his arrival in Islamabad from Ahmedabad yesterday, Kerry met Pakistan's National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif among others.
"The proof is in the pudding, and I mean, it relies on kind of what actual operational steps are taken," a senior State Department official told reporters travelling with Kerry on his trip to Islamabad.
The official made the remarks when asked if the top Pakistani leadership gave any commitment to US on taking actions against terrorist outfits like the dreaded Haqqani network and Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Soon after his arrival in Islamabad from Ahmedabad yesterday, Kerry met Pakistan's National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif among others.
During the meetings, US officials said the Pakistani leadership asserted that they would make no distinction among terrorists.
"The rhetoric that we heard tonight and what we've heard over the course of the last months since the Peshawar attack was absolutely the case that this has unified the country in a way that they've repeatedly described as their 9/11, that it created a consensus in the country that had never been there in that same way," the official said.
"The rhetoric that we heard tonight and what we've heard over the course of the last months since the Peshawar attack was absolutely the case that this has unified the country in a way that they've repeatedly described as their 9/11, that it created a consensus in the country that had never been there in that same way," the official said.
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