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| Pak army has liberty to hit back at Nato attacks: Kayani |
| 2011-12-02 |
| Pakistan Army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Friday gave his troops "full liberty" to respond to any further cross-border attacks by Nato forces in Afghanistan in the wake of an air strike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, official sources said. The powerful army chief told commanders of units deployed along the western border with Afghanistan that they had "full liberty of action to respond (by) employing all capabilities" available at their disposal, the sources said. Kayani was quoted by the sources as saying that there should be "no ambiguity in the rules of engagement for everyone down the chain of command" if they faced an attack by Nato forces. Such an action would "require no clearance at any level" and the army would "provide resources as required on ground", he was quoted as saying. Following Saturday's air strike on two military border posts in Mohmand Agency that killed 24 soldiers, Pakistan closed all Nato supply routes and asked the US to vacate Shamsi airbase, reportedly used by CIA-operated drones. Pakistan also decided to boycott the Bonn Conference on Afghanistan to protest the attack. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #4 ION DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > US REJECTS DEMAND TO VACATE SHAMSI AIRBASE. * PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > {Guardian.UK = ISAF CHIef Gen. John Allen] AMERICA TO BEGIN TWO-YEAR OFFENSIVE AGZ "TERRORIST SANCTUARIES" FROM IN PAKISTAN [Eastern Afghanistan]: CROSS-BORDER ATTACKS [from Afghan into Pakistan] CANNOT BE RULED OUT | NATO PLANS TO QUELL PAK-BASED INSURGENTS [in Afghanistan]: GUARDIAN. Focii to be agz MilTerr controlled by > Haqqanis. > Mullah Nazir. > Hafiz Gul Bahadur. ARTIC > WESTERN DIPLOMAT - PAKISTAN MAY NOT HAVE THE STRENGTH/POWER TO DEFEAT THE TALIBAN + HAQQANIS, ETC. EVEN IFF THEY WANTED TO. * SAME > {Title paraph] PAKISTAN MAY BE CHINA'S FRIEND, BUT IT IS TOO OBSESSED WID AMERICA: PROFESSOR ZHOU RONG {Chief of South Asia Bureau, Ming Daily of China]. PROF. ZHOU RONG = PAK is too EMOTIONALLY OBSESSED wid China, but also PSYCHOLOGICALLY OBSESSED wid the US as many PAK elites still like to send their kiddies to the US for education, NOT China, despite the many probs or breakdown in diplomatic relations between the US + Pakistan. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-12-02 23:53 |
| #3 They cringe in face of Taliban push back in the Territories and now they engage in lower primate displays of aggression against something that could clean them out if there were no leashes holding them back? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-12-02 08:25 |
| #2 OK: you have a loser country dying under US sanctions on Sept. 11, 2001. And said losers have a policy of support for terror groups in a country that facilitated mass murder on US soil. So the US lifts sanction against the losers, and enlists them in nation-building in the murdering-entity. The losers are handed tens of billions of dollars, with the unsupported assumption that existing "in depth" relations with the murderers would end. Duh! Wouldn't the pathological losers be inclined seek conditions where they can at long last win, by undermining the nation-build idiocy, and supporting the murderers? Toss the pay-masters the occasional arab bone - for max photo op - while aiding and abetting continuing murder. When stupidity prospers, none have the intelligence to call it stupidity. |
| Posted by: Cravising Phater2156 2011-12-02 07:06 |
| #1 They have permission to commit suicide.... |
| Posted by: tipover 2011-12-02 02:37 |