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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Pakistan hopes to rout Taliban by late December By VIJAY JOSHI,Associated Press Writer - Monday, November 2 Send IM Story Print KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Pakistan's armed forces hope to rout Taliban militants in the rugged mountainous region along the border with Afghanistan before winter sets in by late December, the country's foreign minister said Sunday. "The operation so far has been very successful. The resistance that we were expecting initially did not come with the same swiftness we were expecting," Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi told reporters. He is in Kuala Lumpur to attend a meeting of Islamic countries starting Monday. Pakistan launched an offensive in mid-October in the South Waziristan area where the Taliban _ including fighters from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Central Asia and the Arab world _ have grown in power in recent years. Osama bin Laden and many of his top al-Qaida aides are also thought to be in hiding along the border. The two militant organizations have formed links with Pakistan's homegrown Islamist militant groups blamed for bombings in other parts of the country, including the prosperous Punjab province in the heartland. "South Waziristan is an area which is very important in order to check criminal terrorist activity in Pakistan. Not just Pakistan, but beyond," Qureshi said. He said the armed forces have surrounded the area and choked supply lines to the militants. They are "on the run. They are in retreat and there is disarray over there," he said. Access to the tribal areas, semiautonomous regions where the Pakistani government has long had only minimal control, is heavily restricted, and independently verifying government reports is all but impossible. Qureshi said it would be difficult to give a time frame for achieving total military success, but "we would want to achieve our objectives as much as possible before the winter sets in." "And it seems, as things are going on, that we might be able to do so ... I can't give you a date, but that area becomes very cold (by late December). We want to operate and establish our foothold before that." U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, during a visit to Pakistan last week, said it was hard to believe that no one in Pakistan's government knew where the al-Qaida leadership was hiding. Qureshi dismissed suggestions that Clinton's rebuke was an embarrassment. He said Clinton was not being "negative or sarcastic" but "objective" because she was speaking as a partner in the fight against terrorism. "We are allies. We have shared objectives. We want these elements who have created havoc in Pakistan and who are potentially dangerous for regional peace and stability to be eliminated," he said. Qureshi urged the United States to coordinate with Pakistan as it fights al-Qaida in Afghanistan's border area. The Obama administration is trying to decide whether to send tens of thousands more troops to Afghanistan. "We feel a troop surge which is well coordinated with us would produce results ... Pakistan's point of view is that it is not only the numbers that will count in Afghanistan. It's how you use those numbers." He said he told Clinton that the United States can benefit from Pakistan's input. "We understand the area. We understand the tribes, we understand the local customs and traditions, and our input might be useful for the Americans to chart out their strategy." ___ Associated Press writer Julia Zappei contributed to this report. 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