Kerry hints at 'disturbing' Pak links with Taliban

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Kerry hints at 'disturbing' Pak links with Taliban

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Kerry is expected to continue on to Pakistan later today.

15 May,2011 07:53 pm

He said there was some evidence Pakistan knew about Taliban hideouts in Pakistan, a finding that he called disturbing. US Senator John Kerry says the US relationship with Pakistan is at a “critical moment” because of the killing of Osama bin Laden.Kerry, chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was speaking Sunday in the Kabul. He is visiting both Afghanistan and Pakistan to mend relations following the unilateral US strike against bin Laden. But he also said that bin Laden’s death may present a new opportunity for reconciliation with the Taliban in Afghanistan.