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| 'Aggression from Pak soil won't be allowed' |
| 2008-10-23 |
| The government would not allow anybody to use Pakistani soil for attacks against other countries, particularly the neighbours, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Wednesday. "If we want others to respect our borders, we must respect the territorial limits of other countries," he told parliament in his concluding speech during the joint in-camera session. He said the government would not allow a handful of misguided people to impose their will on the nation, adding that Pakistan was not a banana republic and the government would ensure its writ at all cost. Gilani said the government would defeat all foreign and local terrorist elements that wanted to force their own system on the people of the country. The prime minister said Pakistan faced serious threats in the shape of terrorism and extremism, and assured the parliamentarians that the government was willing to review its anti-terror strategy in the light of their recommendations. He said the government had been given a new mandate to reorganise the war against terror in the shape of suggestions during the debate on security policy. |
| Posted by:Fred |