LONDON: Pakistan’s prime minister said today he wanted “more clarity” on US President Barack Obama’s new war strategy in Afghanistan, amid fears the troop surge could spark further instability. Yousuf Raza Gilani, under pressure to do more to tackle Islamist terrorism on the Pakistani side of the border, said his government could not yet decide how and if it could implement Washington’s new approach. “We are studying that new policy. We need more clarity on it,” he said after talks in London with his British counterpart Gordon Brown, referring to Obama’s pledge of 30,000 more US troops for Afghanistan. The Pakistani premier added that General Stanley McChrystal, US and NATO military commander in Afghanistan, would be going to Pakistan to discuss “more military cooperation.” “After, when we get more clarity on the situation, then we will see how, if we can implement on that plan,” he told reporters in a joint press conference with Brown. A Pakistani foreign ministry statement on Wednesday, reacting to Obama’s long-awaited announcement, made no mention of welcoming the troop increases. Islamabad has raised fears that an influx of soldiers could again push militants over the border, destabilising an already-troubled region. “I personally feel the military action is not the solution for problems. Therefore we must have an exit policy,” Gilani added. “Military action is only 10 per cent. The 90 per cent is that you have to strengthen, you have to complement with the political decisions, the social, cultural input in those areas.” Washington and London have said Islamabad must do more to stamp out Al-Qaeda sanctuaries and stem the flow of Taliban insurgents hiding out in Pakistan and slipping into Afghanistan to attack foreign troops. This has created frustration in Pakistan, where security has drastically deteriorated since Islamabad joined the US-led “war on terror”, with militant attacks soaring and thousands of soldiers and civilians killed. Gilani publicly clashed with Brown, who on Sunday urged Islamabad to hunt down Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri, still at large eight years after the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States. “I don’t think that Osama bin Laden is in Pakistan,” Gilani said. “We have a good intelligence and defence cooperation with the United States,” he said, adding that “if there is any credible or actionable information that can be shared with Pakistan”, it should be forthcoming. Gilani also disputed Brown’s oft-repeated claim that more than two thirds of the terror plots against Britain have roots in Pakistan. “I don’t agree with this information,” he said. “There have been Uzbeks, Chechens, Arabs, Talibans from Afghanistan... therefore we are fighting with everybody but we have been very successful. Most of them now are not in Pakistan.”