The cross-border strikes of the United States-led coalition forces in Afghanistan are killing civilians in PakistanÂ’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Chairman (CJCSC) General Tariq Majid has said.
Majid was addressing the participants of 7th Shangri-La Dialogue organised in Singapore by the London-based International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS). The general said the strikes incited vengeance of tribesmen and created the perception that the war on terror was in fact ‘anti Islam’.
| Yup. They're just peaceful primitives. They were well-disposed toward all the world until we started breaking things for no reason. |
He stressed that notwithstanding tactical and operational successes both inside Afghanistan and by Pakistan, the strategic goal of security stabilisation has remained elusive. The security situation has become more tenuous as the challenges to domestic and regional stability have increased manifold, the CJCSC added. |