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Sockit2Ya
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Karzai threatens to pursue Taliban militants into Pakistan
June 15, 2008 - 11:50 PM
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KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday threatened to send troops into Pakistan to kill Taliban militants if they pursued cross-border attacks into Afghanistan.
Pakistan said any action against militants on its soil would be undertaken only by its own forces.
Self-proclaimed Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud and other Taliban officials in recent weeks have vowed to send fighters into Afghanistan to battle Afghan and foreign forces.
"This means that Afghanistan has the right of self defense," Karzai said, when asked to comment on the threats.
"When they cross the territory from Pakistan to come and kill Afghans and kill coalition troops, it exactly gives us the right to go back and do the same. Therefore, Baitullah Mehsud should know that we will go after him now and hit him in his house."
Pakistan's Foreign Ministry spokesman said Pakistan had a clear position that U.S.-led coalition forces and Afghan forces could take whatever action they wanted against militants in Afghanistan but on the Pakistani side of the border only Islamabad's own forces were allowed to operate.
"The spokesman emphasized that any statement that negated this basic principle neither helped in the war on terrorism nor promoted stability in the region," the official Associated Press of Pakistan reported.
Both Afghanistan and Pakistan, who have uneasy ties and border disputes, are allies of the United States in its war against al Qaeda and the Taliban.
Nearly 13,000 people, including hundreds of foreign troops, have been killed in Afghanistan since 2006 when the ousted Afghan Taliban made a come back.
The Afghan government says the Taliban and al Qaeda members who fled into Pakistan after the fall of the Taliban government in Afghanistan in 2001 have support and training bases there.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080615/wl_nm/afghan_pakistan_dc_4;_ylt=AmwzQSxpYEIo1eRu.nCzg9f9xg8F
It's good to see that Karzai is serious about going after Taliban militants/terrorists, even if he has to go into Pakistan to do so.
He has NATO forces on his side to help protect the country, now hopefully Pakistan will continue it's pledge to go after these militants.
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Re: Karzai threatens to pursue Taliban militants into Pakistan
June 23, 2008 - 01:12 PM
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He sold his soul and body to money and boneless, comfort-starved and leather-foreheaded bureaucrats who make money by making suffer their own people but putting up a PR campaign Tamerlane would be proud to call his own.
This guye went from being an oppressed patriot, to two faced paid slave to pro-American rat and now - due to turmoil and instability in Pakistan - shouting louder than he could ever shoulder.
He needs to be reminded of what happened during years 1979-1990s.
This post was edited on: 2008-07-04 at 05:49 AM by: mnopq (Moderator)
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Re: Karzai threatens to pursue Taliban militants into Pakistan
June 26, 2008 - 08:59 AM
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elemental wrote:
He sold his soul and body to money and boneless, comfort-starved and leather-foreheaded bureaucrats who make money by making suffer their own people but putting up a PR campaign Tamerlane would be proud to call his own.
This guye went from being an oppressed patriot, to two faced paid slave to pro-American rat and now - due to turmoil and instability in Pakistan - shouting louder than he could ever shoulder.
He needs to be reminded of what happened during years 1979-1990s.
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sorry to say but i think ur mind is as empty as your profile in the TIG. i would never believe that u r from sudan. never...and you should have asked urself for using such words regarding our president...now i can say how good u r !
This post was edited on: 2008-07-04 at 05:50 AM by: mnopq (Moderator)
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