The decision was made on the first day of the two-day meeting of Pakistan’s top military commanders to discuss the US coalition’s ground and air assault in Waziristan region which killed dozens of civilians.
Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani chaired the meeting which began in Rawalpindi on Thursday at the Army General Headquarters.
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Pakistan’s military commanders expressed their determination to defend the country’s borders without allowing any external forces to conduct operations inside the tribal belt bordering Afghanistan, sources said.
A senior official said the military commanders also discussed the implications of the American attacks inside Pakistan and took stock of the public feeling.
“In his statement, Genral Kayani has represented the feeling of the entire nation, as random attacks inside Pakistan have angered each and every Pakistani,” he said.
Earlier on Wednesday, Kayani rebuffed the American policy of including Pakistani territory in their operations against the al-Qaeda and Taliban linked militants hiding in the areas near Afghan border.
Also, Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani noted that Kayani’s remarks on country’s defense were true reflection of the government policy.
The army decision followed bloody incursions by the US ground troops into tribal belt as well as a string of missile strikes by CIA-operated drone aircraft.
The reaction also comes after US President George W. Bush approved US military raids on militants inside Pakistan without Islamabad’s agreement.
The development also brought into the open the increasing mistrust between the Americans and the Pakistanis over how to handle the Taliban and al-Qaeda linked militants in Pakistan’s tribal areas.
Some political expert predict the break out of an all-out war between the United States troops and Pakistani army following the Bush administration’s approval of ground and air assaults inside the country.
September 12th, 2008 at 9:24 am
THE PAKISTAN POEPLE SHOULD KILL ANY AND ALL THAT INVADE THEIR COUNTRY! IF YOU COME INTO MY HOUSE WITHOUT PERMISSION I WILL KILL YOU!
September 12th, 2008 at 9:54 am
So now what ask the indians to join a collition force to attack pakistan
September 12th, 2008 at 10:13 am
If I were a loyal Pakistani young soldier or simply a citizen, I’d be sitting right across the border with my AK just waiting.
Any country that commits war crimes – and the U.S. is a country that has committed many war crimes – has no moral authority whatsoever.
September 12th, 2008 at 10:22 am
we in pakistan have leaders on the payrolls of the judeo-christian killers and murderers , so i do not really have high hopes for the average citizen to get justice and protection from its standing army as the people of waziristan have found out.
these international killers are murdering little children and old men and women and feel proud as if they are on some form of hunting trip!!
it is a long way from yusuf bin hajjajs days when he sent an army to settle the hash of the hindus who violated the respect of 1 muslim woman, today we help these international perverts to do the crime??
shame on so called muslims and i await the true muslims to rise up and get rid of these wine drinkers and womanisers who are an affront to the islamic people. these form of low bastards seem to inefct every muslim country committing horrendous crimes against their own people for material wealth.
you cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds,one day justice will find you out,inshallah!!
September 12th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Violence is not the problem.
Lack of violence is the problem.
Too many stand by and refuse to fight back against an aggressive minority