Al-Qa'ida 'changing focus to Pakistan'
INTELLIGENCE assessments showing al-Qa'ida was changing its focus from Iraq to Pakistan and Afghanistan were highlighted yesterday by US commander David Petraeus as leaders in Islamabad called a crisis meeting over the jihadi militancy sweeping the country.
President Asif Ali Zardari today lauded the Obama Administration's new war on terror strategy for the region as a ``positive change'' and maintained that Pakistan will not allow its soil to be used for terrorism directed against any country.