Source: AFP
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari said in an interview broadcast Sunday that Islamabad’s military is capable of quelling militant elements on its border with Afghanistan, and again urged the US military against launching incursions into its territory.
“Let us do the job, we can do a better job than anybody else can. […]

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Source: Kansas City
Pakistani troops opened fire Monday on U.S. forces who were trying to enter the country’s lawless tribal area, local officials said, marking a dangerous further deterioration in relations between the allies in the war on terrorism.
Both armies - and the Pentagon - denied that the reported incident had occurred, but local security officials […]

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Source: Swiss Info
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military conceded it was not winning the fight against an increasingly deadly insurgency in Afghanistan and said on Wednesday it would revise its strategy to combat militant safe havens in Pakistan.
U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the […]

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Source: Boston.com
By Eric Schmitt
When the Pentagon announced in March that Major General Jay W. Hood would become the senior officer based in Pakistan, it reflected the military’s aim to put a crisis-tested veteran in a critical job at a pivotal time in the fight against Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan’s tribal areas.
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Source: DAWN News
WASHINGTON, Jan 12: The US State Department and the Pentagon have both assured Pakistan that the United States has no plan to take unilateral military action inside its tribal territory.

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