Pakistan signs Malakand sharia deal

CM Hoti slapped down ideas that the deal would usher in the kind of justice meted out by the Afghan Taliban.

Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee talks to US special envoy Richard Holbrooke in New Delhi, India. —AP

NEW DELHI: Militancy in Pakistan's Swat region is a common threat to the United States, India and Pakistan, special US envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke said on Monday, after meeting India's foreign minister and top security officials.

'For the first time in 60 years since independence your country and Pakistan, the US, all face an enemy that poses a direct threat to our leadership, our capitals and our people,' Holbrooke told reporters in New Delhi.