We know the terrain. We know the turf. We speak the language. We can be of maximum use in Afghanistan, and I think that's something that the international community really needs to look at.

Our intelligence tells us he is still in Afghanistan. I think the U.S. apprehension was right in deploying some of these special forces across the border and making sure he wouldn't take that venue into Pakistan.

If the ultimatum comes and they haven't decided on what they're going to do with their foreign guests -- if they are going to give them to us or not -- then ultimately ... we're going to fight them, and we're going to finish them off. And if that's what they choose, ultimately it's their own decision.

The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity.

is indignant and condemns the American strikes on Sudan and Afghanistan.

There is clearly a lot of anti-American sentiment in Pakistan, less so in Afghanistan, but I think that this will feed into it.