Pakistan has to do more in war on terror: US senators

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The US senate chairman and senators have called for Pakistan to do more in fight against terrorism.

22 June,2011 02:29 pm

The US senators have said that the newly-appointed US Defence Secretary Leon E Panetta would have to tell Pakistan to take more steps in fight against terrorism.The US senate chairman also said that Pakistan had to be inculcated that there was need to do more.Panetta has presided over a vast expansion of the CIAs drone strike programme in Pakistan and oversaw the operation that found and killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, the US media reported.Earlier, the Senate unanimously confirmed Leon E Panetta as the defence secretary, putting the Pentagon in the hands of a former Democratic congressman and budget expert amid growing political discontent over the cost and reach of President Obamas military engagements.Panetta technically was the commander of the US special operations raid of the Bin Laden compound, because it was a covert operation run by the CIA.