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| WindsOfWar: Musharraf throws a hissy fit! |
| 2005-07-25 |
| Winds Of War discussion here President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday warned Pakistan would not tolerate future violations of its frontiers and would thwart infiltration into its controlled areas on the pretext of war of terror. Talking to Gen Abizaid, the chief of US Central Command, who called on him at Army House in Rawalpindi, the president said Islamabad was offering every possible support and cooperation to the US and the international community for fighting terrorism and extremism, however it could not allow anyone to violate its borders under the pretext of anti-terror campaign. "Our forces are vigilant against terrorists and are doing every possible for purging Pakistan and the region of them. Their successes against militants are indubitable", he said. "Now, we want our borders to be respected in war of terrorism. We will not put up with border breaches in future ", he said. He said Pakistani security forces had successfully destroyed hideouts of foreign militants in Northern and Southern Waziristan. The president, however sought more technical support from the US for Pakistani intelligence and law enforcing agencies, saying this would help them for completely freeing rugged tribal areas from al-Qaeda militants and Taliban remnants. Gen Musharraf said Washington must help out Islamabad in fulfilling Islamabad's military and defence needs for maintaining balance of power in the region. He said, "We want close ties defence and military ties with the US." The president also emphasized the need for enhanced Pak-US strategic ties and long partnership in all fields, saying the US must take care of the Pakistan's security and military needs as a non-NATO ally. Gen Abizaid, the chief of US Central Command, praised Gen Musharraf's part and courageous decisions in war on terror and said the US would continue cooperating with Pakistan for maintaining peace and stability in South Asia and fighting terrorism at home. Current Pak-US relations, war on terror, operations against al-Qaeda and Taliban in Afghanistan, situation on Pakistani borders and Indo-US defence cooperation deal also came up for discussion in the meeting. |
| Posted by:Sholuck Snung1067 |
| #5 Is Perv's English really that bad? |
| Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever) 2005-07-25 13:43 |
| #4 MunkarKat, I take what Perv says with a grain of salt. OTOH what Perv actually does [WOT]is something less than satisfactory. Dismantling the Mad schools/mullahs and terror infrastruture for instance. He still holds them to be an effective weapons of state, an asset. The good thing about Perv is that some Mullah could be much worse. that ain't saying much. |
| Posted by: Red Dog 2005-07-25 09:38 |
| #3 He's been harassing imams recently and getting flak from the UK so while sortof cooperating he has to placate the local nutjobs with a little display of the ol Paki verbal machismo. I've always been amazed by the fact that he has not yet been whacked on the job by the dozen or so factions that have no use for his survival dog and pony show. |
| Posted by: MunkarKat 2005-07-25 08:43 |
| #2 I wonder how he'd react to an arclight in the NWFP. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-07-25 08:20 |
| #1 Pakland sees the US as tilting more toward India lately and, I think, this is motivating the hissyfit |
| Posted by: mhw 2005-07-25 08:03 |