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Last week, Pakistan for the first time accused Afghanistan-based troops of carrying out a direct attack on its territory, a raid in the South Waziristan tribal zone that left 15 people dead.
In a statement early Thursday, Pakistan’s army chief General Ashfaq Kayani strongly criticised the raids andinsisted there was no deal allowing foreign troops to conduct operations here.
“The sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country will be defended at all cost,” he added, and there was no “agreement or understanding with the coalition forces whereby they are allowed to conduct operations on our side of the border.”
He slammed the killing of civilians in South Waziristan, pointing out that such “reckless actions only help the militants and further fuel the militancy in the area
Pakistani Prime Minister backs up General Kiyani’s strong rebuke to the US.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s prime minister on Thursday backed a harsh rebuke of the U.S. by the Muslim nation’s military chief, a sign of a strain in relations seven years after the Sept. 11 attacks forged the two countries’ anti-terror alliance. Pakistan’s public show of anger with the U.S. comes amid revelations that President Bush secretly approved new U.S. military raids in that country. AP September 11th, 2008
Karzai, for all his nice words at Mr. Zardari’s coronation went back to Kabul and regurgitated what his RAW masters had told him to repeat.
Kabul – Afghan President Hamid Karzaisaid Thursday he supported a new US strategy in the war against terror, which includes military operations inside Pakistan, andcalled for more international aid and training for his country’s security forces.
‘The new strategy is something that me and my colleagues in the Afghan government have talked about three and a half years ago,’ Karzai said at a press conference marking the seventh anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks for which the al-Qaeda terror network claimed responsibility.
‘We believe that the change of strategy is important, meaning that we should go to places where are training centres, where are safe havens so that we jointly eliminate them [the terrorists],’ the president said. M&C September 11th, 2008