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India-Pakistan
Don't fire rockets because target not there, Pakistani official tells U.S.
2009-03-22
A senior Pakistani government official urged the United States on Friday not to extend missile strikes into southwestern Baluchistan province in its pursuit of Taliban leader Mullah Muhammed Omar because he is not there.
"Nope, we asked around, nobody's seen him, so take your missiles and go home."
"A person who is making war against the NATO forces, he must be present in Afghanistan, in [the Afghan province of] Kandahar or somewhere," said Mohammad Aslam Raisani, head of the Baluchistan provincial government.

"There is no justification for drone attacks in Quetta or other parts of Baluchistan," he said.

Taliban students studying peacefully in religious schools in Pakistan are not the same as Taliban militants fighting in Afghanistan, he added.
The students have yet to finish their indoctrination ...
This comes after security forces launched a hunt Friday for suspected Taliban insurgents who fired rockets toward a base late Thursday near the Khyber Pass in northwest Pakistan, killing 10 people. The rockets missed the base in Landi Kotal but hit the town's commercial area, where it also injured 38, started a fire in a timber yard and destroyed nearby shops.
Posted by:john frum

#4  Who's on first? heh heh heh POS Motherfuckers are too funny!
Posted by: Last Breath Farm Resident   2009-03-22 17:20  

#3  US: We are gonna shoot some people in Balichistan.
PK: NO! Don't! He isn't there!
US: Where is he, then?
PK: We have no idea but we know he is absolutely positively NOT anywhere in Baluchistan.
US: So you don't know where he is but you know with absolute certainty where he is NOT?
PK: Yeah, that's the ticket!
Posted by: crosspatch   2009-03-22 14:37  

#2  Taliban students studying peacefully in religious schools in Pakistan are not the same as Taliban militants fighting in Afghanistan, he added.

Yeah, the Saudis have spent a lot on "educating" them, so give them a chance to see some return on their "investment" otherwise they might stop funding the madrassas and then what would they do with all that excess of cannon fodder?
Posted by: tipper   2009-03-22 12:56  

#1  Since 1980 Quetta has been the obverse, actually the hidden side, of the Peshawar coin. It is loaded with crazies and should have been a target of opportunity many many years ago.
Posted by: balthazar   2009-03-22 12:51  

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