March 2013 News 20: PAK NEEDS DIPLOMATIC WORK OBAMA

PAKISTAN NEEDS DIPLOMATIC WORK: OBAMA

Concerned over the extremist safe haven in Pakistan, US President Barack Obama said the issue requires more than simply military actions.

"With respest to Pakistan and safe havens there, Afghanistan and the United States and Pakistan all have an interest in reducing the threat of extremism in some of these border regions between Afghanistan and Pakistan, and that's going to require more than simply military actions," Obama told reporters at a joint press conference with visiting Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

That's really going to require political and diplomatic work between Afghanistan and Pakistan, he said in response to a question from a visiting Afghan journalist when he asked the question of continued safe havens inside Afghanistan.