The US has asked Pakistan to do more to wipe out terrorism from its territory. Talking to reporters in Ahmedabad today the US Ambassador to India Timothy Roemer said that Pakistan is now needed to act against the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).The envoy added that his government had been building immense pressure on Pakistan to go after safe havens in their country and target the Al Qaeda. Roemer said the US shared India’s targets and goals on the LeT, whose leaders have been charged with the 26/11 terror attack in Mumbai.

On Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani absolving intelligence agency ISI of any wrongdoing, Roemer said President Barack Obama had made it clear that the targets that US and India shared in terms of the LeT and individuals being indicted were more and more common. Refuting that the US was practicing double standards on 9/11 and 26/11, he said Washington and New Delhi had come together to share intelligence in unprecedented ways in the last two years.

In a related incident, five Pakistan Army majors are among the top-ten most wanted terrorists by India. The list of 49 most-wanted fugitives in Pakistan was handed over with dossiers by Home Secretary G K Pillai to his counterpart Qamar Zaman Choudhary recently. In the charge sheet filed in a US court by America also mentions one Pakistani army major and a top LeT terrorist who figure in the most wanted list of India.US charge sheet filed in a Chicago trial court against five Pakistani nationals for planning and executing 2008 Mumbai terror attacks conclusively proves involvement of terrorists based in Pakistan.It also indicts Pakistani intelligence agency ISI. Vindicating India’s stand, it also nails the denials of Islamabad that Pakistan had no knowledge about the terror attacks.

Meanwhile, US President Barack Obama talked to the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh yesterday to discuss the successful American action against Osama bin Laden among other matters. They also discussed defence, strategic and high-technology partnerships.