Obama quietly authorises expansion of war in Pakistan
Washington As the US announced deepening of its involvement in Afghanistan by despatching 30,000 more troops, President Barack Obama has quietly authorised an expansion of war against terrorism in Pakistan under which CIA would widen its campaign of strikes against militants by unmanned drones.
US President Barack Obama believed that the ``cancer of terrorism'' was in Pakistan and the war on terror in Afghanistan could not be won without attacking and eliminating the al Qaeda and Taliban safe havens in the Pakistani tribal belt, according to a new book.