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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Search Search: President Zardari insists Pakistan is safe AFP - Wednesday, May 6 WASHINGTON (AFP) - - Pakistan's embattled President Asif Ali Zardari has insisted his government was safe hours before White House talks with Afghanistan on fighting a Taliban insurgency raging in the two countries. ADVERTISEMENT On the eve of the crunch talks, the United States pledged unambiguous backing for both Zardari and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who has picked a warlord and alleged rights abuser as a running mate for August elections. The summit with President Barack Obama comes as some 500,000 people seek refuge from Pakistan's Swat valley, a one-time ski resort near the capital Islamabad where the military has mounted an offensive against the Taliban. "They're not threats to my government. They are threats to my security," Zardari told CNN of the Taliban insurgency, which he cast as another chapter in Pakistan's long-running tribal and ethnic conflicts. "My government is not going to fall when one mountain is taken by one group or the other," Zardari said. Zardari -- whose wife Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in 2007 -- also said his nation's nuclear arsenal was in secure hands. But some US lawmakers preparing a giant aid package for Pakistan voiced doubts about Zardari, a civilian who took over last year after nearly a decade of military rule. "There is a real and present danger to Pakistan's survival, but it comes from inside, not outside the country," Democratic Representative Gary Ackerman said, faulting the Pakistani military's focus on historic rival India. "The fire is real, and they need to respond," Ackerman said. Two US senators have introduced legislation that would triple US civilian aid to Pakistan to 1.5 billion dollars per year over the next five years. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said there would no "blank checks" for Pakistan but both he and Richard Holbrooke, the US special envoy to the region, pledged strong support for Zardari. "Pakistan's of such immense importance to the United States, strategically and politically, that our goal must be unambiguously to support and help stabilize a democratic Pakistan headed by its elected president, Asif Ali Zardari," Holbrooke told the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. "We have the highest strategic interest in supporting this government," the veteran diplomat said. "Our most vital national security interests are at stake." Addressing Washington's Brookings Institution, Karzai said that the White House summit would discuss closing militant "sanctuaries" in Pakistan. Afghanistan's relations have improved with Pakistan since Zardari took over, but Afghan and US officials charge that rogue elements in Pakistan's military and intelligence services are supporting Taliban and Al-Qaeda extremists. "The return of the Taliban is because we did not address the question of sanctuaries in time. Unfortunately, today, Pakistan is suffering with us massively as a consequence of that," Karzai said. With US fears for Pakistan's stability growing, officials said Obama was also likely to press Zardari about the safety of his nation's nuclear arsenal. "We have received many assurances from the military that this is something they have under control, but this is very much an ongoing topic," National Security Advisor James Jones told the BBC. "The world would like to know that on this question, that there's absolute security and transparency." But Holbrooke rejected US media reports that the Obama administration is reaching out behind Zardari's back to political rival Nawaz Sharif, and said any attempt by Pakistan's military to retake power would be "terrible." Obama has placed Pakistan at the center of the fight against the Taliban's Al-Qaeda allies as he dispatches 4,000 more troops to Afghanistan, in addition to an extra 17,000 already committed. Holbrooke acknowledged that Zardari's government could do more, pressing for US access to disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan and arguing that pro-Taliban radio stations in the Swat Valley should be shut down. 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