Al-Qaeda aiming to make Pakistan a 'failed state': US expert.Byline: ANI Berlin, Apr.9 (ANI): A key advisor to US President Barack Obama, Bruce Riedel, has said that Al-Qaeda's main motive motive or motif (mōtēf`), in music, a short phrase or passage of two or more notes and repeated or elaborated throughout the composition. The term is usually used synonymously with figure. is to render Pakistan a failed state as it is trying to paralyse par·a·lyse v. Chiefly British Variant of paralyze. paralyse or US -lyze Verb [-lysing, -lysed] or -lyzing, the government and destabilize de·sta·bi·lize tr.v. de·sta·bi·lized, de·sta·bi·liz·ing, de·sta·bi·liz·es 1. To upset the stability or smooth functioning of: the country. Riedel urged the international community to safeguard Pakistan's nuclear armaments from the reach of the Taliban, which is dangerously expanding its control over different regions in the country. Highlighting the root cause of the ever increasing numbers of extremists, Riedel said most of the Taliban operatives took to violent means because of poverty and if this issue is tackled efficiently, the problem could be dwarfed. "A considerable number of the Taliban are not hard-core committed Jihadis. They are in it for the money. If their momentum is broken, we will start to see a change in the cohesion cohesion: see adhesion and cohesion. Cohesion (physics) The tendency of atoms or molecules to coalesce into extended condensed states. This tendency is practically universal. of the Taliban by the end of the year," The News quoted Riedel, as saying. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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