No Afghanistan solution without Pakistan: Mullen

[Tuesday Afternoon]

AFP – 15 mins ago

There can be no solution to the conflict in Afghanistan without Pakistan, the top US military officer, Admiral Mike Mullen, said Friday as he stepped down from his post.

"I continue to believe that there is no solution in the region without Pakistan, and no stable future in the region without a partnership," Mullen said at a ceremony to handover to the incoming chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey.

"I urged Marty to remember the importance of Pakistan to all of this, to try and do a better job than I did with that vexing and yet vital relationship," Mullen added in remarks.

"Our strategy is the right one. We must keep executing it."

Last week Mullen accused Pakistan of exporting violence to Afghanistan through proxies and charged that the Haqqani network, an Al-Qaeda-linked group, was a "veritable arm" of Pakistani intelligence.

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1. Stop dropping bombs on civilians, then.

If that's a difficult concept to grasp, then we're going to lose not just Pakistan, but every other culture and people we wrestle with.

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2. "Our strategy is the right one. We must keep executing

Pakistanis. It's the only way to win them over."