ISI and CIA Chiefs to meet up in Washington.

[KingMamba]

silly stuff.

Why do we need Americans to identify targets "within" Pakistan. For cryin' out loud, this is our f-ing area. We are supposed to know every inch of it.

If we have the will, we can watch it from the ground, and monitor it from the air. Just mount couple of day/night cameras even on Air-force trainers and fly them day and night. Get the f-ing pictures, find the enemy and kick some Talib @rase.

The only thing we need is to coordinate with NATO before we send ground troops to kill or capture Taliban. Why? because they can stop them from running across the border.

heck Pakistan should sign a treaty for hot pursuit upto 10-15 kilometers into Afghanistan if NATO troops are not available to close the gaps in the border.

We have enough man power for ground attacks and enough pilots to fly daily sorties to monitor from air.

Let's quit haggling on silly stuff. Pakistan's very existence is on the line.

peace.

Agreed before any ground intervention by Pakistani army they need to tell NATO to be ready on the other side of the border to mop up any insurgents that try and escape. It is time to clean out the hubs in BOTH countries.

 

[Oldman1]

and everytime we launched mil ops in and around the God forsaken border, your forces withdrew from their positions and allowed TTP to slip into A-Stan

works (or doesnt work i guess) both ways

Oh oh who killed the leader of TTP? Who killed him?

 

[third eye]

Conflicting reports about Pak-US spy meet outcome | The Nation

Conflicting reports about Pak-US spy meet outcome

WASHINGTON - There are conflicting reports about the outcome of the Thursday’s meeting between intelligence chiefs of Pakistan and the United States that was aimed at bringing their contentious relationship back on track.

While the Pakistan Embassy is saying nothing about ISI Chief Lieutenant General Zaheerul Islam’s meetings with CIA Director David Petraeus and other American officials, western news outlets have been giving some details of the ongoing talks.

Citing a senior US official, CNN and some Western wire services have described the Islam-Petraeus meeting - their first - as “substantive, professional and productive”.

“Both leaders reaffirmed their commitment to work together to counter the terrorist presence in the region that threatens both US and Pakistani national security.”

But Reuters, citing ‘sources familiar with the discussions’ said on Friday that the two spy chiefs exchanges grievances and that it was unclear if they made any progress to end deep divisions on militants living in Pakistani tribal areas or on US drone strikes.
Ahead of his visit, Pakistani officials said the ISI chief would call for an end to US military drone strikes in volatile areas bordering Afghanistan and push for a sharing of technology and intelligence.

“The public preview of Pakistani demands of Petraeus appeared to have displeased US officials, who pushed back at the notion they might cede to Pakistani requests,” Reuters said.

The two countries reached a breakthrough last month with a deal that reopened Pakistani ground supply routes that NATO uses to supply troops in neighbouring Afghanistan, which had been closed since the November air attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers at Salala on the Pak-Afghan border.

“The Obama administration is deeply suspicious of Pakistan, which it believes harbours militants, while Pakistan accuses Washington of disregarding its own human toll from militancy and says drone strikes violate its sovereignty.” Reuters said.
“While sources familiar with the discussions said the two spy chiefs aired mutual grievances, they did not appear to have made big strides on the main issues.”

Pakistan’s Parliament has demanded an end to the drone strikes, but the sources in Washington indicated that US officials did not yield to those demands.

“Both leaders reaffirmed their commitment to work together to counter the terrorist presence in the region that threatens both US and Pakistani national security.”

Ahead of Thursday’s meeting, US officials signalled there would be little, if any, change in US counter-terrorism activity in Pakistan and the region.

Last week, a US official told CNN the United States “supports the Pakistanis taking more responsibility for getting rid the Tribal Areas of al Qaeda and its militant allies.”

The US-Pakistan relationship has improved somewhat since Secretary of State Hillary Clinton apologised last month for the Salala incident.

The Pakistanis responded by reopening the supply routes to Afghanistan that they had closed down in retaliation for the NATO attack.