Friday, July 11, 2008

Pakistan not to Allow Foreign Troops on it's Soil

But it will allow the taliban to operate with impunity. As well as arming the taliban, training the taliban and giving the taliban NATO positions. Fox News


On Wednesday, Pakistan's top diplomat rejected the idea of any foreign troops operating inside Pakistan, reinforcing its refusal to accept U.S. military aid in battling insurgents near the Afghan border.

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi's comments, made during a U.N. Security Council session on Afghanistan's future, could deal a blow to the United States' efforts to kill or capture Al Qaeda leaders.

"Pakistan will not allow its territory to be used against other countries. However, no foreign troops will be allowed to operate inside Pakistan," Qureshi told the 15-nation council
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The U.S. has offered military support to help Pakistan's military put more pressure on Al Qaeda and Taliban strongholds in Pakistan's tribal areas. In recent days, news reports also described Washington as taking steps to make it easier to launch covert special missions in Pakistan's remote tribal areas, where Al Qaeda is believed to be rebuilding its global terror network.

The U.S. has voiced increasing frustrations that Pakistan does not seem willing to apply even more pressure to those areas where the insurgents are thought to inhabit.

"Afghanistan should not [be] used as a geopolitical battleground and we call on Afghanistan's neighbors not to arm or finance insurgents or allow them to operate from their territories," U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said.

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