WASHINGTON: US military chief Admiral Mike Mullen said Thursday that Pakistan needed space to sort out internal problems and that it would be dangerous for the United States to abandon the troubled war partner.
Mullen said that Pakistan has been going through “a great deal of introspection” in the month since US forces killed the world’s most wanted man Osama bin Laden in a secret raid near the country’s top military academy.
“I think we need to give them a little time and space to do that. And that makes all the sense in the world to me” .
“I think the worst thing we could do would be cut them off,” he said.
