Pakistan rips Obama over terror speech

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A senior Pakistani government official today sharply criticized Barack Obama for suggesting in a speech on national security this week that he would, as president, be willing to launch a unilateral strike against terrorists in Pakistan if the country's own leaders refused to act on "actionable intelligence." "It's a very irresponsible statement, that's all I can say," Pakistani Foreign Minister Khusheed Kasuri told AP Television News. "As the election campaign in America is heating up we would not like American candidates to fight their elections and contest elections at our expense." Read the full AP account of Kasuri's comments here.