This is certainly a gross violation of Pakistan's territory integrity, such actions are absolutely counter-productive and will not help us in our fight against our common enemy.
Having said that, I think time has come for our establishment to give-up the good (Afghan Taliban)........bad (Pakistani Taliban) terrorist policy, because of this policy today in the entire international community we our totally isolated even our Arab and Chinese friends are getting fed up with us.
It is time to wake-up before it is too late!
U.S. confirms raid in Pakistan
Cross-border ground assault against Taliban killed at least 15
New York Times
Sept. 3, 2008, 11:56PM
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, PAKISTAN — Helicopter-borne U.S. Special Operations troops attacked al-Qaida militants in a Pakistani village near the border with Afghanistan early Wednesday in the first publicly acknowledged case of U.S. forces conducting a ground raid on Pakistani soil, American officials said.
Until now, allied forces in Afghanistan have occasionally carried out airstrikes and artillery attacks in the border region of Pakistan against militants hiding there, and U.S. forces in "hot pursuit" of militants have had some latitude to chase them across the border.
But the commando raid by the American forces signaled what top U.S. officials said could be the opening salvo in a much broader campaign by Special Operations forces against the Taliban and al-Qaida inside Pakistan, a secret plan that Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has been advocating for months within President Bush's war council.
White House scolding
The Bush administration has criticized Pakistan in recent months for not doing enough to curb attacks by the Taliban and al-Qaida, which conduct cross-border attacks from bases inside the Pakistani tribal region.
There were conflicting reports about civilian casualties in the operation. American officials said one child was killed in the strike; a Pakistani military spokesman said the American troops opened fire on villagers, killing seven people.
After the attack, Pakistan lodged a "strong protest" with the American government and reserved the right of "self-defense and retaliation," said the Pakistani military spokesman, Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas.
Any incursion by American or NATO aircraft and helicopters into Pakistan in pursuit of Taliban militants is a contentious issue for Pakistan. Publicly, the Pakistani authorities say their country's sovereignty must be respected, and they always condemn such raids.
Many details of Wednesday's attack remain unclear, including how many commandos and helicopters were involved, and whether the strike was pre-planned against the al-Qaida targets or precipitated by militant attacks against allied forces in Afghanistan.
Sketchy details of raid
The governor of North-West Frontier Province, Owais Ahmed Ghani, said the helicopter attack occurred at about 3 a.m. and killed 20 people. Local residents said most of the dead were women and children, but this could not be confirmed.
One American official said that at least one child was killed, and that several women who died in the attack were helping the al-Qaida fighters.
A senior Pakistani official called the commando raid a "cowboy action" and said it had failed to capture or kill any senior Qaida or Taliban leaders.
According to accounts of the military action given by a Taliban commander and local residents, the latest attack was aimed at three houses in the Pakistani village of Jalal Khel, also known locally as Moosa Nika.
The village is in the Angoor Adda area of South Waziristan, near a known stronghold of the Taliban and al-Qaida and less than a mile from the border with Afghanistan.
The Taliban commander, known by the nom de guerre Commander Malang, said three helicopters were used in the attack, which took place close to a Pakistani military position on the border and killed 15 people.