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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (44647)	9/20/2003 7:06:52 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

<"It is a mystery to us how the Washington Post, The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal can find the Taliban in Quetta and the Pakistan government cannot," Nancy Powell, US envoy to Pakistan.> ISLAMABAD: The United States has told India to take Prime Minister Zafraullah Khan Jamali "seriously" because in Washington’s assessment recent visits by "actors" like Laloo Prasad and Fazlur Rehman would not help bring normalcy in their half a century old bitter hostilities. According to an Indian newspaper - Business Standard - when Nancy Powell, US envoy to Pakistan, visited India last week she was disappointed that India and Pakistan had started political dialogue through "actors like Laloo Prasad Yadav and Fazlur Rehman, whose political standing was not thought to be very high". Nancy was quoted as saying that the US administration was satisfied with the overall commitment of Pervez Musharraf to fighting terrorism. Even though in the US assessment, Musharraf will never abandon his uniform to become a civilian leader, the US is comfortable in dealing with him, the report said. The newspaper said this was the message Nancy Powell conveyed to several policymakers in India. She reportedly told the Indian establishment that under Musharraf, Islamabad was co-operating fully in tracking down the al Qaeda in Pakistan, though there were some doubts about how committed the Pakistan was to locating and rooting out Taliban. "It is a mystery to us how the Washington Post, The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal can find the Taliban in Quetta and the Pakistan government cannot," she said. However, on the whole there could be no complaints of non-cooperation from the government, she said. Nancy Powell said the anti-Americanism in Pakistan was not as intense as it was thought to be. The newspaper said she pointed out at a meeting with Indian intellectuals that despite the exacting professional conditions for US diplomats in Islamabad-no families, a maximum tenure of one year and strict security-there had not been even one attack on any US embassy official during her tenure.