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1. Business Standard US working with India, Nato to cut off terrorist havens in Pak: Jim Mattis Trump, while announcing his South Asia policy in August, had criticised Pakistan for providing safe havens to terrorists

2. The US wants to make sure that there are no terrorist safe havens in Pakistan and is working with all North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) members and India to make Islamabad do everything to cut the insurgents off, US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis has said. He said that President Donald Trump's new South Asia strategy comprised regionalisation, realigning of forces and reinforcing them. Trump, while announcing his South Asia policy in August, had criticised Pakistan for providing safe havens to terrorists. The Trump administration since then has been putting pressure on Pakistan to do more to rein in terror groups. "What we want to do is start with — from India to across the region — is to make certain that everyone's working on the same sheet of music. We want to make certain that no terrorist organisation can find a haven anywhere, and, with a border adjoining Afghanistan, that makes Pakistan a priority," Mattis said. As such the US is engaging with the Pakistan, he added. "We're engaging a whole-of-government effort. We've got international efforts going on. And one of the reasons we brought it up here was to make certain we were all aligned about where we stood on this," the US Defence Secretary told reporters at the Nato headquarters in Brussels. Referring to the discussions he had with other Nato member countries, Mattis said, "It was remarkable alignment about us all working together to get Pakistan to do everything it can to cut the insurgents off, the terrorists off."…………..read more