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US-Pakistan increase military cooperation: WSJ

Anwar Iqbal
Monday, 05 Jan, 2009 | 11:32 PM PST |
US Army soliders from 1-506 Infantry Division return from a patrol on November 28, 2008 in Paktika province, situated along the Afghan-Pakistan border. — AFP
US Army soliders from 1-506 Infantry Division return from a patrol on November 28, 2008 in Paktika province, situated along the Afghan-Pakistan border. — AFP

WASHINGTON: Military cooperation between Pakistan and the United States has increased recently as both try to eliminate militants destabilising the region, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
The newspaper noted this was a 'marked change' from last year's tense relations between the two countries.
According to the report, the United States is now allowing Pakistani officers to view video feeds from unmanned drones flying over the country’s ungoverned border regions. The US is also granting access to American intercepts of militant cellular and satellite phone calls inside Pakistan. The Pakistani military is using the US intelligence to carry out strikes against militants in Fata.
'The cooperation is a contrast from earlier last year when Islamabad, reacting to public anger over US ground and air strikes inside the country, withheld military cooperation,' the report noted.
Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Schloesser, the top US commander in eastern Afghanistan, told WSJ that the number of insurgents crossing into Afghanistan from Pakistan had begun to decrease, reducing a major cause of instability in Afghanistan. Gen. Schloesser said US and Afghan forces, which were hit by up to 20 rockets a day over the summer, are now hit by two or three.
US officials attributed the declines to American missile strikes on insurgent targets inside Pakistan and the coordinated military campaign known as Operation Lionheart, which involves US moves against militants in Kunar and a large Pakistani campaign in Bajaur.
'The operations in Bajaur and the Predator strikes in Waziristan have caused a disruption across the border,' Gen. Schloesser said. The general's comments mark one of the first times a senior US official has publicly confirmed the use of US missile strikes in Pakistan.
Pakistan's chief military spokesman, Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas told WSJ Operation Lionheart had succeeded in pushing many militants out of Bajaur, which had long been the main militant stronghold in northwestern Pakistan.
The report noted that US officials credit the turnaround in part to Gen. Ashfaq Kiyani, the head of Pakistan's armed forces, who has come to believe that militants pose an extreme threat. 'Gen. Kiyani replaced the head of the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence, which has long maintained covert ties to the Taliban and other armed groups, and has devoted significant military resources toward the fight in the border regions,' the report added.
It noted that Pakistan's fragile civilian government has also taken a harder line toward the militants than many US officials expected.
William Wood, the US ambassador in Kabul, said in a recent interview that Pakistan was 'unquestionably taking more effective action' against militants. 'The only reason I wouldn't refer to it as a bright spot is that the problem is such a big one,' he said.
The report described a small base at Torkham as the focal point of the US-Pakistani military cooperation. The American-built base here opened in the spring, and was meant to house military personnel from the US, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

This is where Pakistani military officers receive access to American 'signals intelligence,' mainly intercepts of radio traffic, cellular and satellite phone calls.
Maj. Robert Brown, the top US official at Torkham, said the base is meant to 'knit together' the US, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
 
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Wow is that all u get after facing a civilian deth toll of 400

On the other hand US and india also increasing their milletary ties..
India got the strategick nuclear_power deal .
and Now US is also selling patriot missile defence system to India
and the cooperation btw these two nations is yet to enhance. We'l see pretty more.

But here all our genrels would get to see is vidios and here digitally edited radio and satellite phone signals.
In US you cannot provide any thing in courte as evidence which is stored in digital format. Weather its a Picture A Vidio or an Audio recording. because they all can be edited and could be changed according to anyones desire.....

audio/vidio/image signals recorded from camera ,cell/stallite phones or radio can be changed using software called MATLAB . Because every thing captured using camera on drones is recorded digitally on computers. Same is the case for audio and image signals.

you guys can confirm it from any engineer who knows Digitall Signal Processing. I studied it thats why i know it.
 
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This cooperation seems to be artificial. US has long-term strategic ties with India, not Pakistan. And Pakistan has to look for new alliances now and new sources of weapons.
 
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audio/vidio/image signals recorded from camera ,cell/stallite phones or radio can be changed using software called MATLAB . Because every thing captured using camera on drones is recorded digitally on computers. Same is the case for audio and image signals.

you guys can confirm it from any engineer who knows Digitall Signal Processing. I studied it thats why i know it.

DSP [Digital Signal Processing] and MATLAB can do things like that but i will be trace able .you can easily detect fault.
you need much more sophisticated and specifically designed software for that.
 
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