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| Pakistan warns US not to stage more raids | |
| 2011-05-05 | |
| The US had better be careful or Pakistan will stomp its twiddle feet and demand more jizya and then where would we be? PAKISTAN warned the US of "disastrous consequences" if it carries out any more unauthorised raids against suspected terrorists like the one that killed Osama bin Laden.
The army and the government have come under criticism domestically for allowing the country's sovereignty to be violated. Some critics have expressed doubts about government claims that it was not aware of the raid until after it was over. Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir's remarks today seemed to be aimed chiefly at addressing that criticism. "The Pakistan security forces are neither incompetent nor negligent about their sacred duty to protect Pakistan," he told reporters. "There shall not be any doubt that any repetition of such an act will have disastrous consequences," he said. | |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #11 Gee whiz -- one cross-border raid deep into putative allied territory per decade isn't exactly running amok. But how about if we stick to UAVs for most of the next decade instead, keeping raids for the Number 1s? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-05-05 23:19 |
| #10 NEWS KERALA > PAKISTAN WARNS INDIA THAT US-STYLE PREEMPTIVE STRIKES [Abbottabad] WILL "RESULT IN A TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE". * SAME > CATASTROPHE IFF OSAMA RAID HAD GONE WRONG: BASHIR [PAK Foreign Secretary]. * SAME > [Haqqani]ENVOY: PAKISTAN MISTOOK US INCURSION [Abbottabad] FOR AN ATTACK FROM INDIA. * SAME > PALESTINIAN RADICAL HAILS "LION" OSAMA, DENOUNCES "DOG" OBAMA. Issmat Hamouri of the Palestinian branch of the HIZB-UT-TAHRIR GROUP [HuT]. ARTIC: > Osama's death will not stop the coming CALIPHATE from originating at AL-AQSA MOSQUE. > POTUS BAMMER will "soon hang". by his neck next to ex-POTUS DUBYA. THREAT OF TERR ATTACK AGZ POTUS BAMMER + WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON, DC??? * THE NEWS.PK > MAORI NZ MP HAILS OSAMA AS A FREEDOM FIGHTER [Islamic = Muslim self determination]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-05-05 22:41 |
| #9 Where oh where to begin ... To wit, * THE NEWS.PK > [PAK Chief of Army Staff KAYANI] COAS:MORE ABBOTTABAD-LIKE RAIDS [by US, etc.]NOT TO BE TOLERATED. * SAME > [US MAJGEN Mills] MILLS:MULLAH OMAR SHOULD BE WORRIED. * RELATED > FREEREPUBLIC = US, PAKISTAN THREATENING EACH OTHER WID MILITARY ACTION. * WAFF > PAKISTAN ISSUES NEW WARNING TO US ["disastrous/dire" consequences]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-05-05 22:17 |
| #8 BTW - This explains it pretty well. |
| Posted by: newc 2011-05-05 21:14 |
| #7 I may sound like apologist - but be easy on Pakistan. Thats a hard place. |
| Posted by: newc 2011-05-05 20:41 |
| #6 When Pakistan is willing to take out thier own garbage we won't have to. |
| Posted by: CincinnatusChili 2011-05-05 19:03 |
| #5 OldSpook says it: countries that don't enforce their own sovereignty -- by cleaning out those who attack others -- will find that their sovereignty isn't respected. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2011-05-05 16:01 |
| #4 "Pakistan warns US not to stage more raids" Hokey, we won't - until the next one. "insisted relations between Washington and Islamabad remain on course" So we've agreed to keep paying them? |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2011-05-05 13:45 |
| #3 Smells like public bluster for the public masses. I expect the troops just to disappear from the spreadsheet, not the country. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2011-05-05 12:05 |
| #2 US Response should be: We will stop raiding you when you stop harboring terrorists and Talib. You dont like it? Say goodbye to all the US aid and arms and spare parts. They're now going to India. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2011-05-05 10:45 |
| #1 Clean up your A-Z of terrorist groups and we would not need to clear up your unholy mess! |
| Posted by: Black Bart Phuling7750 2011-05-05 10:32 |