Pakistan PM backtracks on Waziristan remarks

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Source: Reuters

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan's prime minister backtracked on earlier comments on Saturday that a military campaign against the Taliban in their South Waziristan bastion had ended, saying the offensive was continuing.

In televised comments from the eastern city of Lahore, Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani told reporters the military operation in South Waziristan had concluded and that the army may now shift focus to the Orakzai tribal region where militants are believed to have fled.

But Gilani later said though the army had captured Taliban strongholds in South Waziristan, the offensive had not yet ended.

"I may have said it in a different context," he told reporters in the city of Karachi in comments broadcast live by state-run television.


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