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Post by justjohn on Sept 13, 2008 4:25:33 GMT -7
Pakistan's Internet Magazine Herald September 12, 2008 Friday Ramazan 11, 1429 Nato not to take part in US raids inside Pakistan BRUSSELS: Nato will not take part in a proposed US strategy of conducting raids into Pakistan from Afghanistan against Taliban and Al Qaeda militants, a spokesman said on Thursday. “The Nato policy, that is our mandate, ends at the border,” James Appathurai told a regular news briefing. “There are no ground or air incursions by Nato forces into Pakistani territory.” Nato states would discuss the issue, Appathurai said, but he added: “Let me stress, it is not Nato that will be sending its forces across the border.” The 26 Nato defence ministers will hold an informal meeting on Sept 18-19 in London, but Appathurai said the next opportunity for them to discuss Afghan operations would be at a ministerial meeting in Budapest on Oct 9-10. The spokesman said a solution needed to be found to growing extremism in tribal areas of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan. “Pakistan needs to take effective action in cooperation with the rest of the international community and the Afghans to address the problem that is increasingly threatening Pakistan’s stability as well as Afghanistan’s,” he said. Nato leads a force of some 53,000 troops in Afghanistan. A separate US force is also battling militants in the country.—Reuters
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Post by jimpres on Sept 13, 2008 11:03:59 GMT -7
Don't you just love it when our NATO allies are behind us.
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Post by karl on Sept 13, 2008 12:33:23 GMT -7
I am sorry, this is not exactly true. For it is not un-usual for information to be mis-directed. NATO forces completed intrusion as of: 04 Sept. 2008 of: village-Musa Necke. Location known as: South Wairistan. Number of civilian causalities as count: 15 dead NATO forces entered with violation of Pakistani air-space. Resulting in condemnation issued from Pakistani: PM/NWFP Governor/Minister of Defense. US Embassy and Pentagon have declined comment. thenews.jang.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=17008Karl
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