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Pakistan will continue shelling Millitants along Afghan Border

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ISLAMABAD:

Islamabad has made it clear to Washington and Kabul that shelling on the Afghanistan-based militants from Pakistan would continue in the future, as it was necessary to counter terrorists who have been consistently attacking Pakistan’s security forces over the past weeks, Ambassador Mohammad Sadiq told The Express Tribune.

Pakistan took this position at a Core Group Meeting with US special envoy Marc Grossman and Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister Javed Ludin in Kabul on Tuesday.

Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir explained during the meeting that the bombardment was not directed at Afghan civilians.

A similar meeting between the US, Afghan and Pakistan security officials also took place at the Army Headquarters in Peshawar the same day, highly placed sources told The Express Tribune.

The officials were to discuss cross border strikes by Afghan militants and Pakistan’s retaliation operations.

Shelling by Pakistan on Afghan militants during the week has so far claimed several civilian lives besides a large number of miscreants who crossed over to Pakistan to attack its security forces.

Ambassador Sadiq was summoned by the Afghan ministry of foreign affairs last week to receive a demarche over the shelling which, according to the Afghan media, led to the deaths of several civilians, forcing others to flee their houses in Kunar and adjoining areas.

The recent shelling on Afghan villages by Pakistan’s security forces was not an intentional act on the part of its forces, Sadiq told the Afghan foreign minister.

“Several hundred civilians and security personnel were killed by Afghan militants who crossed over into Dir and Bajaur during the last few weeks, Sadiq said, adding “the armed lashkars from across the border targeted Pakistan’s security forces six times during the last three months”.

US-Taliban contacts

Ambassador Sadiq confirmed that Washington was in contact with the Taliban for reconciliation. However, he said that at present there was no discussion between the US and Afghan Taliban on reconciliation and transition.

“Washington was in contact with former Taliban spokesman Syed Agha,” he said, adding that they had held three meetings in the past in Qatar, Kandahar and Germany.

Contact with Syed Agha was arranged by Germany which is pleading for a negotiated settlement of the Afghan crisis. “We have learnt that both sides have exchanged terms and conditions for the talks,” Sadiq explained.

Regarding reports of talks between the UK and the Afghan Taliban, Sadiq said there were no such negotiations between the two parties.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 29th, 2011.

Core group talks: No let-up in shelling militants, says Pakistan – The Express Tribune
OTOH I have seen Afghans bitching/crying about it - I know how happy they were about drone attacks in Pakistan - Now they should learn that Payback is a .They were relying on NATO and we paid them back in the same coin.Saw that several Afghani Officials are crying to NATO to help them out.Though i would say they should control the taliban on border who have attacked Pakistan Army again today.We finally did what Turkey had done in Iraq to counter PKK terrorists.
 
""ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani telephoned Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday and expressed serious concern over the militant activities along the Pakistan-Afghan border, especially in Dir, Bajaur, Mohmand on the Pakistan side and Kunar on the Afghan side.

Gilani told Karzai that the Pakistan Army was exercising utmost restraint, despite repeated cross border raids by the militants from the Afghan side into Pakistan. The situation, he said, needed to be defused quickly.

Pakistan has also requested the ISAF to convene an immediate meeting between commanders from Pakistan, ISAF and the Afghan security forces to improve border coordination between regional commanders.

He requested President Karzai to ask ISAF and Afghan military commanders to join Pakistan’s efforts to defuse the situation created by the militants and to avoid any further loss of innocent lives on both sides of the border.

The Afghan premier showed his concern over the situation and expressed his readiness to send ISAF and Afghan commanders for a meeting to address the issue.

He stressed that both the countries should remain in touch with each other and work together to frustrate the evil designs of militants.

Tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan peaked last week at the trilateral talks in Kabul where Karzai and subsequently Afghan officials repeatedly blamed Pakistan for firing munitions across the border into Afghanistan. Pakistan defended itself claiming it only fired against militants in ‘hot pursuit’.""

Telephone: Pakistan army exhibiting utmost restraint, Gilani tells Karzai
 
Unfortunately, this is the only solution Pakistan can come up with, but it has to be done for Pakistan's interest and for the sake of our people's security. If Afghans don't like, then their National Army should take care of militants in Afghanistan, which are constantly crossing, attacking security posts, and running away (guerilla warfare).
 
Good news. Its time Pakistan put these Afghanis in their place.

And then we should say sorry like America and Israel say when innocents are hurt, but then continue killing the enemies of Pakistan.
 
firing 100 of rockets into a village isn't great either, how would you like it if your family members die in it.

Afghanis already hate us so it wont make any difference if we stopped firing rockets or dropped an atomic bomb in the heart of Kabul.

Pakistan should start being tough with these Afghani militants like other powers like U.S. do.
 
Afghanis already hate us so it wont make any difference if we stopped firing rockets or dropped an atomic bomb in the heart of Kabul.

Pakistan should start being tough with these Afghani militants like other powers like U.S. do.
well ofcourse they will hate when you are firing rockets into their villages killing innocent people lol.
 
well ofcourse they will hate when you are firing rockets into their villages killing innocent people lol.

Even when we didnt fire rockets into their villages, they hated us.

If I was the President/Prime Minister of Pakistan, I would drop 10 nuclear bombs all over Afghanistan to get rid of this nuisanace for Pakistan.
 
As long as the Pakistani tribal people are on the side of the Pakistan Armed Forces (which they've always been, & continue to do so in Kurram & Mohmand), there is nothing that Pakistan needs to worry about. The US doesn't realize that you need to win the hearts & minds of people to win these wars, which is why Pakistan completed the Swat & South Waziristan operations so successfully, & is currently doing an excellent job killing the Afghan terrorists trying to infiltrate into Kurram & Mohmand from Afghanistan.
 
Yes keep killing more Afghans you will produce 3 more terrorists for each one you killed.
 
Actually Pakistan itself doesn't want to hurt any civilian. Those incidents weren't intentional from Pakistan. Those were some unguided rockets who accidentally might have fell on civilians. Happens in Pakistan too during the operations.

Yes keep killing more Afghans you will produce 3 more terrorists for each one you killed.

Does that goes for drone attacks too?
 

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