US-led coalition fire kills 4 Pakistanis !

[genmirajborgza786]

US-led coalition fire kills 4 Pakistanis By SADAQAT JAN, Associated Press Writer

1 hour, 53 minutes ago
An artillery shell fired by U.S.-led coalition forces during an operation against militants in neighboring Afghanistan killed four Pakistanis across the border, a military spokesman said Thursday.

Pakistani army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas said five artillery shells fired by coalition forces inside Afghanistan strayed into Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region on Wednesday.

One shell hit a home in the village of Kangrai, killing two women and two children, Abbas said.

Pakistan has lodged a "strong" protest with coalition forces over the incident, which it believes was not "intentional," Abbas said.

"They were engaging militants, but five shells (inadvertently) landed over here," he told The Associated Press.

Coalition military officials were not immediately available to comment.

Pakistan is a close U.S. ally in the war against terrorism and has deployed some 90,000 troops to hunt down militants in its border regions near Afghanistan.

Pakistan and Afghanistan share a long border that straddles rugged mountains and desert regions and is poorly demarcated in places.

Incidents of coalition fire landing in Pakistani territory have occurred in the past, drawing protests from Pakistani officials.

In June last year, a rocket fired during a battle between U.S.-led NATO forces and insurgents in Afghanistan struck a home in North Waziristan, killing 10 people.

Pakistan has called for better coordination between U.S. and Afghan military authorities in anti-militant operations to avoid civilian casualties and incidents of inadvertent fire landing inside its territory.

Pakistan has captured hundreds of suspected al-Qaida and Taliban militants, including senior terror figures. But the Pakistani tribal regions are still believed to be the operating grounds for militants.

Pakistani authorities blame militants operating in the tribal regions near Afghanistan for several suicide bombings that have killed scores of people in recent months, including opposition leader and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who was killed Dec. 27 in a suicide and gun attack in the city of Rawalpindi.


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[salman nedian]

Again the same shameful silence from GOP.

 

[IceCold]

Again the same shameful silence from GOP.

DO you really believe that lives of pakistanies means a damn thing to anyone including the GOP? ANswer this question and you will know why their is always a silence when something like this happens.

 

[Samudra]

Again the same shameful silence from GOP.

They have protested.

 

[genmirajborgza786]

Pakistan protests at US shelling

Pakistan's military has criticised US-led forces in Afghanistan for firing artillery shells across the border, killing two women and two children.
Five shells fired by coalition forces fighting militants landed in North Waziristan region, Pakistani army spokesman Maj Gen Athar Abbas said.

The US military said the strike was in response to an "imminent threat".

US and Pakistani forces have been battling Taleban guerrillas along the rugged Afghan-Pakistan border.

The border is not clearly marked in many places and is frequently traversed by the ethnic Pashtun tribesmen who fill the Taleban's ranks.

The Pakistani army spokesman said a shell fired from Afghanistan had struck a house in the village of Kangrai in North Waziristan.

"The coalition forces were firing at a group of militants when five shells landed in Pakistan, destroying a house and killing two women and two children," Maj Gen Abbas told AFP news agency.

He said Pakistan had complained about the incident but did not believe it was intentional.

A US military spokesman in Afghanistan told the BBC the attack had taken place in response to an "imminent threat" in Pakistan.

Maj Chris Belcher also said the US had carried out similar cross-border strikes in the past.

In a separate interview with AFP, Maj Belcher said the attack had targeted militants led by a Taleban commander, Sirajuddin Haqqani.

He told the agency the Pakistani government had been notified of the attack immediately after it happened.

British air strike

According to Reuters news agency, the attack prompted some 2,000 people to take to the streets in protest in the nearby Bajaur region.

The US has stationed thousands of troops to fight Taleban and al-Qaeda guerrillas in southern and eastern Afghanistan.

Thousands of troops supplied by US allies are also operating in Afghanistan under Nato command.

British forces in the south-western province of Helmand said on Wednesday that they had accidentally killed four Afghan civilians in an air strike.

The Taleban was driven from power in Afghanistan by a US-led invasion in 2001.

The hardline Islamist militia has since mounted a comeback, with its followers mounting bomb attacks and assassinations in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Pakistan last year accused US-led forces pursuing insurgents in Afghanistan of firing a missile that landed in North Waziristan, killing 10 people.

The US has urged Pakistan to boost security along the border and fight the militants who seek shelter there.


Story from BBC NEWS:
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Pakistan protests at US shelling

Published: 2008/03/13 12:33:05 GMT

© BBC MMVIII

 

[genmirajborgza786]

Pakistan border strike 'kills 16' !

At least 16 people have been killed in a missile strike on a building near Pakistan's northern border with Afghanistan, state television has said.
The attack took place in the South Waziristan region, where tribal militants are based, Reuters news agency reported residents as saying.

The Pakistani state TV report said several missiles destroyed the house of a suspected militant leader.

Reuters reported the military saying seven militants were among the dead.

"Initial reports suggest militants were hiding there and seven of them were killed and several wounded," an unnamed military official told the news agency.

A local tribesman said foreign militants were believed to be staying at the compound, in a village near Wana in South Waziristan.

"Militants have cordoned the blast site and are taking out bodies from the rubble," the tribesman told AFP news agency.

"The missile has left only part of a boundary wall intact and turned the compound into a pile of debris," he said.

War on militants

It was not clear who launched the strike.

A local tribesman, Rahim Khan, told the Associated Press that the missiles were fired from an unmanned drone aircraft.

US forces, operating in neighbouring Afghanistan, are believed to have been behind previous strikes in Pakistan's border region.

In February, at least 12 people - including suspected militants - were killed in a missile attack on a house near the Afghan border.

A month earlier, a senior al-Qaeda leader, Abu Laith al-Libi, was killed in a strike in North Waziristan.

The US considers strikes in the tribal border region - the heartland of al-Qaeda and the Taleban - to be vital in its war against Islamist militancy.

However, the Pentagon does not confirm them, since Pakistan publicly opposes any US strike on its territory.

Story from BBC NEWS:
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Pakistan border strike 'kills 16'

Published: 2008/03/16 12:44:37 GMT

© BBC MMVIII

 

[ak56]

We all muslim countries should stand united against USA and INDIA, they are only name sake democracies but kill innocent muslims.

 

[Energon]

We all muslim countries should stand united against USA and INDIA, they are only name sake democracies but kill innocent muslims.

Far more innocent muslims have died at the hands of other muslims within Pakistan than those killed by US or Indian arsenal.

 

[genmirajborgza786]

U.S. missiles kill at least 9 militants in Pakistan !

U.S. missiles kill at least 9 militants in Pakistan By Hafiz Wazir
2 hours, 3 minutes ago

A U.S. aircraft fired missiles on Sunday at a house in a Pakistani region known as a haven for al Qaeda and Taliban fighters, killing at least 9 militants and wounding nine, an intelligence official said.

A U.S. Central Command spokesman said the missiles were not fired by any military aircraft. This leaves open the possibility it could have been a pilotless drone aircraft which the CIA has used in Pakistan.

The intelligence official said four missiles were fired at the house in Shahnawaz Kheil Dhoog, a village near the town of Wana in the South Waziristan region on the Afghan border, just after 3 p.m. (1000 GMT).

"It was apparently an American plane that fired precision guided missiles at the house," the official, who asked not to be identified, told Reuters.

Three foreigners, an Arab and two Turkmen, were among those killed, according to the intelligence official.

Villagers put the death toll at 18.

"Except the boundary walls, the house has been destroyed," said a senior district government official who declined to be identified.

"The place has been used for some time as a militant hideout," he said.

The attack came a day after a Turkish woman was killed and five Americans were among 11 people wounded in a bomb attack at a restaurant popular with foreigners in the capital, Islamabad.

A spokesman for Pakistani Taliban militants claimed responsibility for the Islamabad bomb, the latest in a surge of attacks that began in July after troops stormed a radical mosque complex in Islamabad.

Hundreds of people, including former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, have been killed in bomb attacks since then, raising fears for stability in the nuclear-armed U.S. ally.

U.S. forces have used drones to fire missiles at militants on the Pakistani side of the border several times in recent years.

A missile believed fired by a U.S. drone killed 13 suspected militants in South Waziristan in late February. On January 28, one of Osama bin Laden's top lieutenants, Abu Laith al-Libi, was killed in a strike in North Waziristan.

NOT A PAKISTANI ATTACK

Pakistani military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas said Pakistani forces had not conducted any operation in the area. He did not know who carried out the strike or what type of weapon was used.

Neither U.S. nor Pakistani authorities officially confirm U.S. missile attacks on Pakistani territory.

There is widespread public opposition in Pakistan to the U.S.-led campaign against al Qaeda and the Taliban. Pakistan says it would not allow foreign military operations on its soil.

Many al Qaeda members, including Uzbeks and Arabs, and Taliban militants took refuge in North and South Waziristan, as well as in other areas on the Pakistani side of the border after U.S.-led forces ousted the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001.

From sanctuaries in the lawless border belt, the Taliban have orchestrated their insurgency against the Afghan government and the U.S. and NATO forces supporting it.

Increasingly, so-called Pakistani Taliban have been mounting attacks in Pakistani towns and cities, many aimed at security forces and other government targets.

Maulvi Omar, a spokesman for an umbrella organization of Pakistani militant groups, said the Pakistani Taliban were responsible for the blast in Islamabad on Saturday and twin blasts in the city of Lahore on Tuesday that killed 24 people.

"These attacks were a reaction to operations being carried out by the military against our people. We will continue this if they don't stop killing our people," Omar said by telephone.

(Additional reporting by Kamran Haider, Alamgir Bitani; Editing by Robert Birsel and Keith Weir)


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[ak56]

Why are we fighting our own muslim people for the sake of the christians in US. Christians are our enemy far more than the Hindus, the Indians are not a big threat but the US is killing our muslim brothers all over the world. They are paying GOP the money to kill innocent people in pakistan, our govt is a fool to submit to them. Its high time we keep US away from Internal affairs, like what india has been doing.

 

[BATMAN]

Why are we fighting our own muslim people for the sake of the christians in US. Christians are our enemy far more than the Hindus, the Indians are not a big threat but the US is killing our muslim brothers all over the world. They are paying GOP the money to kill innocent people in pakistan, our govt is a fool to submit to them. Its high time we keep US away from Internal affairs, like what india has been doing.

How do you know we are fighting our own men? Just because the are located in Pakistan's teritory?

You have no idea, what is the big game? who is the master mind?
Have you wondered who sponsor these armed mullahs and why Pakistan was more successful than NATO in capturing foreign terrorists?
Why Bin-Laden is roaming freely and how he influenced last American elections?

There is no way that any Muslim can practice its religon freely out side an Islamic country and destabalizing an existing Islamic state is the biggest sin any one can do.

these are puerly strategic and geopolitical issues and very delicate too.
If we look from Pakistan's perspective, our threat is the same state with whom we have fought wars and some disguised mullahs and politicians are working on their pay roles.

We cannot live isolated from the Christians or Jew states. We have to choose our allies from our survival point of view.
Where as we the people of the state should use all the available time to work hard and not head to misleading western media. Unfortunately, which has just happened in year 2007.

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

Why are we fighting our own muslim people for the sake of the christians in US. Christians are our enemy far more than the Hindus, the Indians are not a big threat but the US is killing our muslim brothers all over the world. They are paying GOP the money to kill innocent people in pakistan, our govt is a fool to submit to them. Its high time we keep US away from Internal affairs, like what India has been doing.

What logic!

It takes the cake.

Are you suggesting that Moslems are beyond allurement to sell themselves to non Moslems?

Please understand that be you a Moslem, Christian, Hindu or a Jew, you are driven by self interest. Religion has nothing to do with how one would react.

Quit bringing religion in the mundane of existence.

Bringing it up with no cause only expose it to ridicule!

 

[Mustapha]

What logic!

It takes the cake.

Are you suggesting that Moslems are beyond allurement to sell themselves to non Moslems?

Please understand that be you a Moslem, Christian, Hindu or a Jew, you are driven by self interest. Religion has nothing to do with how one would react.

Quit bringing religion in the mundane of existence.

Bringing it up with no cause only expose it to ridicule!

Salaams,

lol, I think you are taking the cake...

If you look back at his previous posts, he uses religion not his "self-interests."


Ray, you got to stop drinking...Perhaps its really getting into you...

 

[Always Neutral]

An unfortunate accident. I hope its speedily investigated and proper compensation is given to the family.

Regards

 

[A.Rahman]

An unfortunate accident. I hope its speedily investigated and proper compensation is given to the family.

Regards

There is compensation only if gora's blood is spilled