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 WASHINGTON (AP) - Pakistan's foreign minister on Tuesday said his country was not in turmoil and urged the West to do more to help fight militants in the wild frontier region along the border with Afghanistan.
Khurshid Kasuri, in Washington to meet with top administration officials and lawmakers, bristled at criticism that Pakistan is failing to address a rise in militancy in a region where scores of people have been executed for perceived ties with the Pakistani government or the United States — allies in the U.S.-led fight against terrorists there.
"Has the West succeeded in Iraq? Has it succeeded in Afghanistan?" Kasuri asked in an interview with The Associated Press. "We live in the real world, and in the real world there is no black and white."
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