WASHINGTON – The United States expects that Pakistan would stand by its commitment not to “discriminate” among terrorist groups, a State Department spokesman has said.
“Pakistan has said itself that they’re not going to discriminate among terrorist groups, and it’s our expectation that they will continue to meet that pledge,” spokesman John Kirby told reporters at the daily Press briefing on Wednesday.
The spokesman was responding to a question about State Department’s assessment of Pakistan’s efforts to eliminate terrorism because a number of members of the US Congress believe that the country wasn’t doing enough.
“The Pakistani people have suffered at the hands of terrorists for far too long.
They’ve lost friends, they’ve lost family, they’ve lost soldiers and troops to the same shared threat,” Kirby said.
“We continue to discuss and to talk and to try to work together with Pakistani leadership to get at what is a very real, very shared challenge not just to the people of Afghanistan and Pakistan, but to the entire region,” he added.
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