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India-Pakistan |
Afghan NATO force hits targets inside Pakistan |
2008-07-16 |
All righty then...![]() Nine Afghan soldiers were wounded by the rocket attacks and ISAF responded immediately, an ISAF spokesman said. ISAF and the Pakistani army "coordinated their operation closely from the outset. The Pakistani military agreed to assist and search the area if the border firing continued," the statement said. Despite cooperation and open lines of communication between army commanders on both sides of the border, Afghan leaders have blamed Pakistani agents for a string of attacks. These have included a suicide bomb on the Kabul Indian Embassy last week that killed 58 people and an April assassination bid on President Hamid Karzai. Pakistan rejects the accusations and says the Afghan government is trying to deflect criticism of its own failure to stem the rising tide of Taliban violence. The U.S. military, which provides the vast majority of troops in eastern Afghanistan, says attacks are up by 40 percent in the area over the last year, partly because of increased penetration of their soldiers into the mountainous region. Another factor is the ceasefires in Pakistan which help secure the militants' rear. But while cross-border firing has gone up from both sides, NATO denied it had any intention of mounting any incursion onto Pakistani soil."There is not, nor is there going to be, an incursion of NATO troops into Pakistan. There is no planning for, no mandate for, an incursion of NATO troops into Pakistan," NATO spokesman James Appathurai told a news briefing in Brussels. But, he said, NATO troops "have the right to fire back in self-defence into Pakistan." |
Posted by:tu3031 |
#2 Now that they have experience with being on the receiving end of videotape evidence, I wonder if they are going to be so quick to judge this time. |
Posted by: gorb 2008-07-16 15:30 |
#1 MOAB, please! |
Posted by: anymouse 2008-07-16 14:33 |