Pakistain has already summoned US Ambassador Richard Olson to the Foreign Office to convey concerns over the report earlier this month.
The country's protest over what the Foreign Office called "unwarranted comments" had been conveyed by the Prime Minister's Adviser on National Security and Foreign Affairs, Sartaj Aziz to the US ambassador at the Foreign Ministry.
Briefing news hounds from both national and international media at the army headquarters in Mir Ali, North
Wazoo on Saturday, Major General Zafarullah Khan Khattak termed the report "baseless, malicious, demoralising and contrary to ground realities"."There is no such thing [happening here as is] mentioned in the Pentagon report. Pakistain army is not using Death Eaters anywhere for so called proxy wars," said the senior army officer.
Khattak said that army operation, Zarb-e-Azb
..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)...
was being carried out against all Death Eaters group ‐ including the Haqqani network ‐ and that a number of bully boy commanders belonging to the bully boy outfit have also been killed in the offensive.
He said that commanders of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), a bully boy organization working against China, have also been killed and the network destroyed in the operation in North Waziristan.
The commander expressed the hope that Pak-Afghan border security issues could be settled at the political level through talks and said the visit by the Afghanistan's Caped President to Pakistain is timely and would help in better border management.
Giving the latest figure about casualties, the commander said 42 officers and security forces personnel have been killed while 155 are injured in the ongoing operation.
"1,198 bully boyz have been killed, 356 injured, and 227 have been jugged
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
by security forces," he said.
"11 private jails, 191 secret tunnels 39 IED factories, 4,991 various types of ready-made IEDs, 132 ton kaboom, 2,470 sub machine Guns, 293 machine Guns, 111 heavy machine Guns have also been recovered during the operation," he added.
| ...all to be stored in the ISI arms lockup until they're ready to hand them out to their pet jihadis again. |
| That's an awful lot of potential Indian deaths... and frugality is a virtue, after all. |
... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a
ministatein centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas...
, Mir Ali, Boya, Dattakhel and Ghulam Khan areas of the tribal belt have been cleared, however, clearance operations are still underway.
About rehabilitation of the IDPs, he said fool proof mechanism has been adopted to ensure that Death Eaters are not returned to the area.
During briefing and field visits, pictures of dead bodies of the Death Eaters and weapons recovered from Death Eaters were also shown to the media.