London, July 26 - Pakistan's Foreign Minister S.M. Qureshi has promised to close down Pakistani sanctuaries for the Afghan Taliban after mounting US criticism, a newspaper reported Sunday.

However, the Pakistani army continues to divide the Taliban into good and bad, the newspaper said.

In an interview with The Sunday Times in Islamabad, Foreign Minister S.M. Qureshi insisted that his country would no longer give sanctuary to Taliban leader Mullah Omar and other members of the Afghan Taliban.

'We are clear we have to deal with all elements that are challenging the writ of the government and making Pakistan or other places insecure,' he said.

'We don't want our soil, our national territory, to be used against anyone.'

'We're no more differentiating between good terrorists and bad terrorists. They've created havoc, made our environment insecure, and wherever they are, we'll take them on,' he said.

Asked specifically if this would include Mullah Omar and his Quetta shura, which runs the Afghan Taliban, the minister replied: 'Absolutely, we'll be taking them on.'

But the paper said senior Pakistani military officers still divide the Taliban into good and bad.

'They cause no trouble to us,' it quoted one general as saying when asked about Mullah Omar and Jalaluddin Haqqani, a Waziristan warlord said to be close to the Al Qaeda.