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| Afghanistan |
| Nato aircraft violate Pakistani airspace |
| 2013-07-18 |
| [Dawn] Two aircraft of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... forces in Afghanistan on Wednesday evening violated airspace of neighbouring Pakistain by infiltrating into its boundaries by several kilometers. Intelligence sources told Dawn.com that the aircraft penetrated into the Pak airspace through Pak-Afghan Torkham border. The aircraft returned back to Afghanistan after flying for several minutes within Pak boundaries without causing damage or getting involved in any other violation of rules. This is however not the first occasion when NATO aircraft violated Pak airspace. Similar incidents have been witnessed in North Wazoo, Kurram, Mohmand and Khyber tribal agencies in the past. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 They'll have a committee meeting about that on... Is next June too soon? |
| Posted by: mojo 2013-07-18 21:47 |
| #2 I blame sunspots for that one. This time, I think, can be attributed to the gain on the political outrage output circuit being set a little too high. Must be either getting close to foreign aid calibration-time or the domestic politics circuit is being tweaked. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-07-18 14:44 |
| #1 This is however not the first occasion when Nato aircraft violated Pakistani airspace. The most noteworthy of these being the 1-2 May 2011 multi-lift flights in and out of Abbottabad (also known as Operation Neptune Spear).....somehow never detected by PAK radar. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-07-18 01:31 |