Updated On: 14 January, 2017 08:08 AM IST | | Agencies
<p>In a tough message to Pakistan, James Mattis, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for US defense secretary, has said that if confirmed, he would tell Islamabad the need to “expel or neutralize” externally-focused militant groups operating with impunity within the country</p>


James Mattis, Donald Trump’s pick for US defense secretary
Washington: In a tough message to Pakistan, James Mattis, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for US defense secretary, has said that if confirmed, he would tell Islamabad the need to “expel or neutralize” externally-focused militant groups operating with impunity within the country.