Obama warns Pakistan of US invasion

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Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama warned on Wednesday that as president, he would send US troops into Pakistan to hunt down terrorists even without local permission if President Pervez Musharraf failed to act first.

Obama’s tough remarks, which prompted the Pakistani government to caution presidential candidates against using terrorism for “point-scoring”, came in a bold speech laying out his anti-terror strategy.

Days after his chief Democratic rival Hillary Clinton branded him “naive” and “irresponsible” on foreign policy, the Illinois senator also accused President George W Bush of botching the war on terror.

Obama warned President Musharraf that he must do more to shut down terrorist operations in his country and evict foreign fighters under an Obama presidency, or Pakistan will risk a US troop invasion and losing hundreds of millions of dollars in US military aid.

A Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokeswoman declined to comment without seeing Obama’s exact remarks, but issued a general warning for candidates. “He is not the president of the United States, we do not make comments on the observations of individual politicians,” spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam told AFP.

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