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Demands by the US for Pakistan to crack down on the strongest Taliban warrior in Afghanistan, Siraj Haqqani, have been rebuffed by Pakistan after which the US has threatened to broader and more frequent drone strikes in Pakistan. According to New York Times report, fighters of Haqqani network pose the biggest threat to American forces so the Obama administration wants Pakistan to turn on Haqqani. The paper claimed that the demands, first made by senior American officials before President Obamas Afghanistan speech and repeated many times since, were renewed in a written message delivered in recent days by the United States Embassy to the head of the Pakistani military, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, according to American officials. Gen. David H. Petraeus followed up on Monday during a visit to Islamabad.
