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NeoConsSuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-08 04:34 PM
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Pakistan orders end to foreign incursions
Source: CNN.COM

Pakistan's military chief said Wednesday that no foreign forces will be allowed to conduct operations inside Pakistan in light of last week's "reckless" U.S. military ground operation.

Pakistan's "territorial integrity ... will be defended at all cost and no external force is allowed to conduct operations ... inside Pakistan," according to a military statement attributed to Chief of Army Staff Gen. Parvez Kayani, who succeeded Pervez Musharraf after he stepped down as Pakistan's army chief last year.

The announcement came as Pakistan's military resumed its battle against Taliban militants in its tribal region, two army spokesmen said. More than 20 militants and four security forces were killed in Monday's fighting in Bajaur Agency, they said.

A ground incursion last week by U.S. forces into Pakistan strained relations between the two countries. Pakistan summoned the U.S. ambassador in Islamabad to complain about the incident, which it said killed 15 civilians.



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/09/10/pakistan.troops/index.html
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-08 04:40 PM
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1. Countries generally frown upon it when you kill their civilians. n/t
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ohio2007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-08 05:05 PM
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2. Taliban didn't accept the peace offer last year to leave
Edited on Wed Sep-10-08 05:24 PM by ohio2007
I doubt they will leave seeing they have gained the upper hand


20 killed in attack on Pakistan mosque
At least 20 worshippers have been killed and 30 wounded in a grenade attack on a mosque in northern Pakistan.

'Militants surrounded the mosque, threw grenades and then started indiscriminate firing, killing 20 people and wounding 30 others,' a senior security official told wire services.

He said the attackers fled into the mountains
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http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0910/pakistan.html

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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-08 05:35 PM
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3. Or what? nt
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