NEW YORK, Aug 1: Democratic presidential candidate Barrack Obama said on Wednesday that he would possibly send troops into Pakistan to hunt down terrorists. In a speech, Mr Obama warned that President Pervez Musharraf must do more to shut down terrorist operations in Pakistan and evict foreign fighters, or the country would risk a US troops’ invasion and losing hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid under his presidency. “If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won’t act, we will.”—Correspondent

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