| Submit your comments on this article |
| Afghanistan |
| American and Pakistani forces launch joint attack on Haqqani Network |
| 2011-10-19 |
| American and Pakistani forces have launched a coordinated offensive against the Haqqani Network, the feared Taliban faction which recently attacked the US embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan's army chief said on Wednesday His confirmation came hours after Pakistan's military chief General Kayani ruled out a full scale offensive against the group and issued a stern warning to the United States against any incursion into Pakistan territory. In a speech to members of the Pakistan National Assembly Defence Committee, General Pervez Ashfaq Kayani reminded Washington that Pakistan is a nuclear power, not another Afghanistan or Iraq, and that the United States should think "ten times" before launching a unilateral operation against the Haqqanis on Pakistani soil. Analysts close to the Pakistan army leadership however said his comments were for "domestic consumption" and to cover Islamabad's submission to growing American demands to take action against the militant group. General Sher Mohammad Karimi said Operation Knife Edge will target Haqqani Network fighters using the lawless border area of North Waziristan Agency in Pakistan to launch cross-border raids into Afghanistan. The militant group, which has strong ties to al-Qaeda, has also become powerful in Khost and Paktika provinces which border North Waziristan in eastern Afghanistan. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #6 PAK COAS Gen. Kayani's statement has also been ascribed as meaning a de facto US war agz Pakistan will be 10X harder for the US than as agz Iraq or Afghanistan, since Pak is already an established nuclear power. ION KAYANI + OTHER ... * PAKISTAN DEFENCE FORUM > KAYANI SAYS PAKISTAN DOES NEED US [military] AID [anymore], WARNS AGZ UNILATERAL ACTION, espec by the US agz Pakistan. * SAME > GENERAL KAYANI: PAKISTAN SOVEREIGNTY TO BE PROTECTED AT ALL COSTS. * SAME > YOUTUBE [Geo TV]: KAYANI THREATENS US, FLEXES NUCLEAR MUSCLE. * SAME > KAYANI: PAK ARMY ORDERED TO FORCEFULLY RESIST ANY MILITANT OR FOREIGN-LED INCURSION FROM AFGHANISTAN. * SAME > KAYANI: PAKISTAN NOT USING HAQQANIS TO WAGE PROXY WAR AGZ AFGHANISTAN. * SAME > PAKISTAN AWAITS US NOD ON [new] RULES OF ENGAGEMENT. * SAME > MINSTER SAYS KAYANI WAS ASKED TO STAGE A COUP, agz President Zardari by an "important Western Power". ["TWILIGHT ZONE" anthem here]. versus * DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > US SHELTERING MULLAH FM [M. Fazlullah - Chief, Swat Taliban] + TTP TERRORISTS, in Afghanistan. * SAME > NATO VIOLATED PAKISTANI AIRSPACE IN BALOCHISTAN [Qila Abdullah region]: ANP. ANP = Awami National Party. * SAME > PAKISTAN LOST TWO [full] BRIGADES IN WAR ON TERROR., to include 1 ea. 3-Star + 2 ea. 2-Star ranking Generals. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-10-20 00:05 |
| #5 #4 I interprete Kayani's statements as meaning the PAK Army will resist any US-led mil incursion into North Waziristan or other Pak areas, PAK WILL WAGE WAR AGZ INDIA AS DIVERSION, + lastly Pakistan = Iran = handing out Nuke-WMD techs to Terror Groups to launch Terrops agz the US-West. IMO PAK = IRAN = STAY ON STRATEGIC DEFENSIVE = KEEPING ANY PER SE MIL CONFLICT WID US-NATO/ALLIES CONFINED TO WEST ASIA + NEARBY REGIONS. I.E. Let the Terror Boyz attack CONUS-NORAM, while Pak waits for US to attack it. Lest we fergit, IRAN > has stated that, in a worst-case scenario + as pertinent, its Army-IRGC-Basij forces will retreat into neighboring countries or regions [read, RUSSIA + EX-SSRS], + launch anti-US "People's War" guerilla campaigns agz occupying US = US-Allied forces inside Iran. DITTO PAKISTAN EXCEPT PAKISTAN WILL HAVE BOTH RUSSIA, + BFF CHINA. Lets not fergit that whole Iran Mad Mullahs' threat to "nuke their own country/soil to defeat the Zionist-Crusader Invader Occupier US" thingy. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-10-19 23:42 |
| #4 General Pervez Ashfaq Kayani reminded Washington that Pakistan is a nuclear power, not another Afghanistan or Iraq, and that the United States should think "ten times" before launching a unilateral operation against the Haqqanis on Pakistani soil. Does General Kayani mean to suggest that Pakistan would launch a nuclear war against the U.S.? That strikes me, in my ignorance, as unwise. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-10-19 23:04 |
| #3 General Kayani prolly still has the Haqqanis on his cellphone speed dial. Lying asshole |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-10-19 21:32 |
| #2 How many lollipops and ice cream cones can a Predator carry? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2011-10-19 18:44 |
| #1 A little of the old hammer and anvil, hopefully. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-10-19 18:03 |