Pakistan's Foreign Minister also stated that US raids hurt the war on terror. So...Pakistan's senior government members are talking smack about the US, the ISI/army helps and trains the taliban and we're to blame?
Why are we giving billions of dollars in aid to Pakistan? A Pakistan News
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has termed the US attacks inside Pakistan’s territory as terrorism.
Speaking to media persons at Prime Minister House here on Wednesday, Prime Minister Gilani said his government wants to take all the coalition partners on board on national issues. He said war against terrorism is Pakistan’s own war.
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Thursday, October 2, 2008
Gilani: US Attacks Inside Paksitan Terrorism
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Shots Fired at Pakistani PM's Motorcade
Update: According to al Jazeera the taliban have claim responsibility for the assassination attempt. What a shocker.
Multiple sniper rounds were fired at Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani's motorcade. The motorcade was either travelling to Islamabad or from Islamabad. Gilani's spokesman said that Gilani was on his way to Islamabad at the time but Interior Ministry Secretary Shah said the motorcade was driving to pick up Gilani.
Suspicion falls on al Qaida or the taliban. A couple of weeks ago terrorists fired on a US consulate worker's motorcade in Peshawar. This attack shows that the terrorists are increasingily brazen in their attacks.
The prime minister's spokesman, Zahid Bashir, said shots were fired at Gilani's car as he was driving into the capital, Islamabad, from the city's airport.
"Multiple shots were fired at the prime minister's motorcade. The prime minister is safe, by the grace of God," Bashir said.
But Interior Ministry Secretary Kamal Shah told state-run television the motorcade was on its way to the airport to pick Gilani up.[...]
The prime minister's office said multiple sniper shots had been fired and two bullets hit the bullet-proof window on the driver's side. Television pictures showed two bullet marks on the window.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
35 Terrorists Find out There is No Paradise with 72 Virgins
After a suicide bombing that killed 8 Pakistani policemen, Pakistani forces killed up to 35 taliban terrorists. Reuters
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said today that Pakistan would address the 'root causes' of the increasing violence in the North Western Provinces (aka talistan). He listed the root causes as poverty and unemployment. Ya...right, the root cause surely isn't waging jihad in order to establish shariah/islamic law. AFP....
The fighting in Swat broke out when militants ambushed a security patrol, a military official said.
"Four of our soldiers have been martyred while we killed 35 militants and damaged several of their hideouts," said Major Nasir Ali, from the military's information department.
Earlier, a suicide bomber rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into a police station in the valley, killing at least eight policemen and wounding 10, police said.He said that the government was addressing the root cause of militancy and suicide attacks, identifying poverty, unemployment and lack of basic healthcare and education facilities as the main reasons behind the unrest.
"We are working for the economic uplift and development of the tribal areas," he said.
Gilani urged all political parties and religious groups and people at large to join forces to fight the menace of terrorism and said that the militants were a tiny minority in Pakistan.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Pakistani PM Says Defeating Terrorism Key to Survival
If Gilani is sincere than he has a lot of work to do. Number one is to purge the ISI of taliban/al qaida sympathisers. Number two is to deny the taliban and al qaida any safe havens inside Pakistan.AP
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SLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Hours after a suicide attack killed eight people, Pakistan's prime minister said in an Independence Day speech Thursday that the country must defeat extremism to survive.
As investigators sifted through the bloodied attack site in the eastern city of Lahore, Yousuf Raza Gilani admitted Pakistan "is passing through a difficult phase."
"We have to fight back the challenges of terrorism and extremism," the premier told an audience in the nation's capital, Islamabad. "The war against terrorism and extremism is the war of our own survival. With the people's cooperation we will fight this war and ensure the government's writ at all costs."A Taliban spokesman said Tuesday's attack was revenge for Pakistani military operations against militants in the frontier region near Afghanistan. The spokesman, Maulvi Umar, said it was an "open war" between the militants and the armed forces, and threatened more attacks if the offensives did not stop.
During his speech Thursday, Gilani also said that Pakistan has emphasized to the United States that it "cannot allow any unilateral action on Pakistani soil."
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Afghanistan Waiting for Pakistan to Secure Border
In a meeting with President Bush, Pakistan's Prime Minister Gilani had promised to secure the border with Afghanistan and stop terrorists from infiltrating Afghanistan. Now the Afghan government wants to see some action after months of talk from the Pakistani government. Reuters
I wouldn't be holding my breath.
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KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan said on Tuesday that after the Pakistani prime minister made a commitment to U.S. President George W. Bush to secure the border with Afghanistan, it was now time for Pakistan to take action.
Relations between Afghanistan and its neighbor Pakistan have sharply deteriorated in recent months with Afghan officials repeatedly accusing Pakistani agents of secretly backing Taliban insurgents fighting Afghan and foreign troops on Afghan soil.
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani sought to reassure Bush of his government's commitment to securing the border with Afghanistan during a visit to Washington on Monday. The Afghan government has told the United States and NATO allies that "the source of the terrorism in Afghanistan goes back to the sanctuaries inside Pakistan territory," Hamidzada said.
But, he said, "unfortunately we have seen a lot of talk from the Pakistani side and less action, we are hoping that they will walk the talk, it is a time to implement."
Pakistan's new civilian government has turned to talks with militants in its tribal border region in order to defuse violence that has killed hundreds of Pakistanis in the last year.
GILANI DEFENDS NEGOTIATIONS, ISI
But Afghan and NATO leaders say the talks have eased pressure on the militants allowing them to send more insurgents into Afghanistan where attacks along the eastern border are up by some 40 percent this year.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
President Bush Praises Pakistan Will to Fight Terrorism
President Bush praises Pakistan's commitment to fighting terrorism. UH...either President Bush doesn't want to admit that he made a mistake by making Pakistan an ally, he is delusional or the Pakistanis are extorting the US. What else could it be?!?!?!?New York Times
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WASHINGTON — President Bush on Monday praised Pakistan’s commitment to fighting extremists along its deteriorating border with Afghanistan, only hours after an American missile strike destroyed what American and Pakistani officials described as a militant outpost in the region, killing at least six fighters.
Mr. Bush, meeting with Pakistan’s prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, at the White House, sought to minimize growing concerns that Pakistan’s willingness to fight extremists was waning, allowing the Taliban and Al Qaeda to regroup inside Pakistan and plan new attacks there and beyond.
Senior American officials, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice just three days ago, publicly scolded Pakistan for not doing more to root out safe havens like the one bombed on Monday in Azam Warsak, a village in South Waziristan near the Afghan border.The meetings on Monday carefully sidestepped the political and diplomatic sensitivities that have strained relations ever since political opponents of the country’s authoritarian president, Pervez Musharraf, won elections this year and formed a governing coalition lead by Mr. Gilani.
Neither Mr. Bush nor Mr. Gilani discussed the American strike inside Pakistan, nor recent episodes like the American bombing of a border post in June that killed 11 Pakistani soldiers and inflamed anti-American sentiment. The two leaders appeared eager to show that they were working together closely and respectfully.
With Mr. Gilani by his side on the South Lawn, Mr. Bush praised Pakistan as “a strong ally and a vibrant democracy” and expressed appreciation for “the prime minister’s strong words against the extremists and terrorists.”
“We talked about the need for us to make sure that the Afghan border is secure, as best as possible,” Mr. Bush said before the leaders continued their discussions. “Pakistan has made a very strong commitment to that.”
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Pakistan to Fight Talk to Terrorists it's Own Way
Pakistani Prime Minister Gilani said that the war on terror is Pakistan's own problem and it will deal with it in it's own way. Reuters
Funny, I thought the US, Britain, Canada, Australia, Poland and countless other countries are fighting the taliban as well. Last I checked, allies should be working together not working separately.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan is fighting al Qaeda and the Taliban for its own interests, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said on Saturday as he embarked on his first official visit to the United States.
Gilani, in office since March, is due to meet U.S. President George W. Bush in which militant sanctuaries along the Pakistani border with Afghanistan is expected to figure prominently.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, speaking in Australia on Friday, set the tone for the visit by stressing Pakistan had to do more to curb the flow of militants fuelling the Afghan insurgency.In recent weeks, U.S. officials have shown impatience over the rising number of attacks in Afghanistan, raising fears in Pakistan that U.S. forces might take action against militant bases on Pakistani soil.
Pakistan, which itself is facing growing militant violence at home, says it would continue fighting al Qaeda and the Taliban but would not allow foreign forces to take action in its territory.
Hundreds of people have been killed in a wave of suicide attacks across Pakistan since mid-2007, including the one that killed former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in December.
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