Nato massacres dozens of Pakistani soldiers in an unprovoked attack

[Riz]

What are you talking man, Pakistan Army is highest disipline institution. It should be that SC must call Kiyani for answeres.

i am not against army, i am against these genrals, i said how can they deploy the troops without arming with sams and aircover

 

[American Pakistani]

Pakistan: Death toll from NATO attack up to 25
By ANWARULLAH KHAN, Associated Press – 15 minutes ago
KHAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan state TV says the death toll from an alleged NATO helicopter attack on a Pakistani army checkpoint near the Afghan border has risen to 25 soldiers.

State TV reported the death toll Saturday.

The Pakistan military has blamed NATO helicopters for the attack on the checkpoint in the Mohmand tribal area late Friday night.

NATO officials in Kabul said Saturday they were aware of the incident, and would release more information after they were able to gather more facts about what happened.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

KHAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan on Saturday accused NATO helicopters of firing on an army checkpoint near the Afghan border and killing 15 soldiers, in an attack that is likely to further strain relations between Islamabad and U.S.-led forces fighting in Afghanistan.

The incident late Friday night came a little over a year after U.S. helicopters accidentally killed two Pakistani soldiers near the border, whom the pilots mistook for insurgents they were pursuing. Pakistan responded by closing a key border crossing on a NATO supply route to Afghanistan for 10 days until the U.S. apologized.

In a statement sent to reporters, the Pakistan military blamed NATO for the attack in the Mohmand tribal area, saying the helicopters "carried out unprovoked and indiscriminate firing." It said casualties have been reported but details were still coming.

A government official and a security official said the helicopters killed 15 Pakistani soldiers, including two officers, and wounded seven others in two attacks on the checkpoint.

The government official was based in Mohmand and the security official in Peshawar, the main city in Pakistan's northwest. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.

NATO officials in Kabul said Saturday morning that they were aware of the incident, and would release more information after they were able to gather more facts about what happened.

The governor of Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province criticized the incident, calling it "an attack on Pakistani sovereignty."

The checkpoint that was attacked had been recently set up in Salala village by the army to stop Pakistani Taliban militants holed up in Afghanistan from crossing the border and staging attacks, said two government administrators in Mohmand, Maqsood Hasan and Hamid Khan.

The military has blamed Pakistani Taliban militants and their allies for killing dozens of security forces in such cross-border attacks since the summer. Pakistan has criticized Afghan and foreign forces for not doing enough to stop the attacks, which it says have originated from the eastern Afghan provinces of Kunar and Nuristan. The U.S. has largely pulled out of these provinces, leaving the militants in effective control of many areas along the border.

The Afghan-Pakistan border is a constant flashpoint, with both nations and the U.S. exchanging accusations of violations and of negligence in preventing cross-border attacks.

The U.S. and Afghan governments have long accused Pakistan of not doing enough to prevent its territory from being used by Afghan Taliban militants and their allies to stage attacks against forces in Afghanistan.

The Afghan government blamed Pakistan for firing hundreds of rockets into eastern Afghanistan earlier this year that killed dozens of people. The Pakistan army has denied it intentionally fired rockets into Afghanistan, but acknowledged that several rounds fired at militants conducting cross-border attacks may have landed over the border.

The Afghan and Pakistani Taliban are allies but have largely focused their attacks on opposite sides of the border. The Afghan Taliban aims to topple the U.S.-allied government in Kabul, and the Pakistani Taliban has tried to do the same in Islamabad.

Frustration about cross-border attacks in both directions has contributed to deteriorating ties between the U.S. and Pakistan. The relationship took an especially hard hit from the covert U.S. commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden in a Pakistani garrison town on May 2. The Pakistanis were outraged that they were not told about the operation beforehand, and now are angered even more than before by U.S. violations of the country's sovereignty.

The U.S. helicopter attack that killed two Pakistani soldiers on Sept. 30 of last year took place south of Mohmand in the Kurram tribal area. A joint U.S.-Pakistan investigation found that Pakistani soldiers fired at the two U.S. helicopters prior to the attack, a move the investigation team said was likely meant to notify the aircraft of their presence after they passed into Pakistani airspace several times.

Pakistan moved swiftly after the attack to close the Torkham border crossing that connects northwestern Pakistan with Afghanistan through the famed Khyber Pass. Torkham is the main crossing in Pakistan, the country through which NATO ships about 30 percent of non-lethal supplies to its forces in Afghanistan.

Suspected militants took advantage of the impasse to launch attacks against stranded or rerouted trucks carrying NATO supplies.

Senior U.S. diplomatic and military officials eventually apologized for the attack, saying it could have been prevented with greater coordination between the U.S. and Pakistan. Pakistan responded by reopening the border crossing.

Associated Press writers Riaz Khan in Peshawar, Pakistan, and Sebastian Abbot in Islamabad contributed to this report.

Copyright © 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

 

[53fd]

I have a feeling that all those documentaries on BBC and CNN and all those articles in the media about the so called Pakistan's "double game" was for this.

America is provoking Pakistan.

Provoking into what? What does it gain by provoking, & instigating an open confrontation with Pakistan? That is everything they say they want. A case of an open confrontation will not only destroy US ambitions in Afghanistan, but might well trigger World War 3 as well. Along with the daring overtures against Syria & Iran, the US is in a destructive mood right now, & doesn't look like it will spare itself either.

 

[53fd]

I highly doubt the covert part buddy, Pakistan at this point of time doesn't need more headache. If found necessary you can always discontinue the diplomatic relations.

This will result in something very big, & will most likely result in a lot of problems inside Afghanistan.

 

[Abu Basit]

Awam & media needs to join hands & make hell outta this issue, let the drama not repeat this time.

Awaam is always ready , don't know about the " media"

 

[Omar1984]

Pakistan should stop all NATO supplies immediately and permanently. Winter is coming and there is no other route. NATO will leave the region in a month if we stop all NATO supplies ASAP and permanently.

 

[Doctor09]

PESHAWAR: NATO helicopters from Afghanistan carried out an "unprovoked" attack on a Pakistani border post, killing at least 20 troops and injuring four others Saturday, the military said.

According to a military spokesman, NATO helicopters carried out unprovoked and indiscriminate firing on a Pakistani checkpost in Mohmand agency last night.

Security officials in the Mohmand tribal region near the Afghan border and a military official in Peshawar said 20 troops including two officers were killed in the pre-dawn incident.

They said the attack took place on the Salala checkpost in the Baizai district of the rugged tribal terrain.

Nato confirmed it was aware of "an incident" near the border and said it was investigating.

All the entry and exit points of Mohmand Agency were sealed by the security forces after the incident.

 

[Areesh]

I have a feeling that all those documentaries on BBC and CNN and all those articles in the media about the so called Pakistan's "double game" was for this.

America is provoking Pakistan. Now if Pakistan retaliates, that would give America an excuse for air raids inside Pakistani territory.

We won't retaliate openly. But some American soldiers would have to die in some major suicide attack by Haqqani or whatever network in Afghanistan. Some soldiers of Amreeka have to die.

 

[GURU DUTT]

Some times its so dumb on some pakistanies view of there ARMY that a sane person not able to say something but laugh?????

How come al of this american crap is going on without armies & its generals knowledge , can anybody(even americans)survive in pakistan without armies nod ?????come on guys it is the incompetent pakistan army whose more interested in Shaadi halls , landgrabs kind of stuff rather then defending pakistan & iradicating curroption & terrorists .

 

[Areesh]

Pakistan should stop all NATO supplies immediately and permanently. Winter is coming and there is no other route. NATO will leave the region in a month if we stop all NATO supplies ASAP and permanently.

Other than stopping supply line we must make sure that some big attacks by Taliban should be made on NATO and Americans. Suicide attack or whatever.

 

[Doctor09]

some American and NATO soldiers must be dead in Afghanistan .... blood for blood

 

[Windjammer]

Is this a photoshop work ???

For umpteenth time ..yes....check the wall/curtain pattern under American General's arm.!!

http://www.defence.pk/forums/general-defence/112514-any-attack-pakistan-would-construed-attack-china.html

Any comments from tallal and deepal fliends ?

Weren't you warned by a MOD the other day not to push your luck. !!

 

[Ghareeb_Da_Baal]

Pakistan blocks Afghanistan NATO supplies after checkpost attack
By Umer Farooq
Published: November 26, 2011

The supply has been suspended due to the NATO attack in Mohmand Agency, official sources confirmed. PHOTO: AFP/FILE
PESHAWAR: Pakistani authorities on Saturday blocked the NATO supply route to Afghanistan after an attack on a border checkpost killed at least 24 Pakistani soldiers. The attack by NATO helicopters on a checkpost located in Mohmand Agnecy killed at least 24 soldiers and injured 12.
Official sources confirmed the suspension of supplies, adding that all containers were stopped at the Takhta Baig checkpost in Jamrud tehsil of Khyber Agency.
“We have suspended the supply and will not let even a single container move ahead,” the official added.
The supply has been suspended as a result of the NATO attack in Mohmand Agency, official sources confirmed.
Takhta Baig is the first checkpost followed by four more check-posts in the tribal areas and is the shortest possible route to Afghanistan.
Pakistan lodges protest with the US
Acting Pakistani Ambassador to the US Iffat Imran has lodged a verbal protest over the attack.
She conveyed Pakistan’s concerns over the the NATO-ISAF unprovoked attack no Pakistani territory.
The official protest will be lodged with the US State Department on Monday, when Thanksgiving holidays end in the US.
(with additional reporting by Sumera Khan)

 

[Omar1984]

Some times its so dumb on some pakistanies view of there ARMY that a sane person not able to say something but laugh?????

How come al of this american crap is going on without armies & its generals knowledge , can anybody(even americans)survive in pakistan without armies nod ?????come on guys it is the incompetent pakistan army whose more interested in Shaadi halls , landgrabs kind of stuff rather then defending pakistan & iradicating curroption & terrorists .

No common Pakistani is denying the fact that the army also is stabbing this nation.

Army, PPP, PML-N, MQM, ANP are all responsible for the halat Pakistan is in today.

 

[Areesh]

some American and NATO soldiers must be dead in Afghanistan .... blood for blood

Exactly. Can't wait for a suicide bomber bombing NATO convoys in Afghanistan.

Go Haqqani network go and do it. In case if you really exist and have Pakistan support.