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India-Pakistan
Pakistan to show NATO zero tolerance
2011-12-02
[Iran Press TV] Pakistain has said that it would no longer tolerate the spilling of the blood of its citizens at the hands of the US-led forces, who violate its illusory sovereignty.

"Enough is enough. The government will not tolerate any incident of spilling even a single drop of any civilian or soldier's blood," Pak daily The News reported on Thursday, quoting Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar as telling politicians in Pakistain's capital Islamabad.

Pakistain would discontinue its support for the US-led war in Afghanistan if its illusory sovereignty was violated again, she added.

On November 26, US-led NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
helicopters and fighter jets carried out Arclight airstrikes on two military checkpoints in the northwest of Pakistain, killing 24 Pak soldiers and wounding dozens of others.

The attack has fueled the anti-American sentiment among the Pak people and prompted a harshly-toned condemnation from the country's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani
... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ...

Khar said there would be no compromise on the country's national interests.

The minister added that Islamabad's recent retaliatory decision to order the US to vacate Pakistain's Shamsi airbase in the northwestern province of Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
was final.

On Wednesday, a senior Pak Army official said the attack had been a deliberate act of blatant aggression.

"Detailed information of the posts was already with ISAF (the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force), including map references, and it was impossible that they did not know these to be our posts," said Major General Ashfaq Nadeem, Army's Director General of Military Operations.

Thousands have marched in all major Pak cities, including Islamabad, Bloody Karachi, Lahore, Faisalabad, Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Charsada, Nowshera, and Rawalpindi to condemn the strikes.
Posted by:Fred

#1  See also DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > PAK ARMY CHIEF GIVES TROOPS "FULL LIBERTY" TO RESPOND TO NATO STRIKES, wid any + all weapons systems available.

versus

* SAME > [WSJ.com]PAKISTAN CLEARED FATAL HIT, US SAYS.

* SAME > PAKISTAN DEFENDS LACK OF ACTION [military counter-response/retaliation] DURING NATO ATTACK.

ARTIC = Communications was down, the PAK AIR FORCE, etc. was confused.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-12-02 20:35  

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