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Pakistan army believes NATO attack planned: reports

Posted on 10 December 2011 by Tea Server


(Reuters) – A
senior Pakistani military officer said a NATO air strike killing 24
Pakistani troops on the Afghan border last month was pre-planned and
warned of more attacks, comments likely to fuel tension with the United
States.

Major General Ashfaq Nadeem, director general of military operations, was also quoted by newspapers on Friday as saying that Pakistan, a strategic U.S. ally, would deploy an air defense system along the border to prevent such attacks.
Nadeem
made the remarks to a Senate committee on defense on Thursday. Senator
Tariq Azim, who attended the briefing, confirmed to Reuters that Nadeem
had made the comments.
The Daily
Times said Nadeem described the attack as a plot. Another newspaper
quoted him as saying it was a “pre-planned conspiracy” against Pakistan.
“We can expect more attacks from our supposed allies,” the Express Tribune quoted Nadeem as saying at the senate briefing.
U.S. and Pakistani officials have offered differing initial accounts of what happened.
Pakistan
said the attack was unprovoked, with officials calling it an act of
blatant aggression — an accusation the United States has rejected.
Two
U.S. officials told Reuters that preliminary information from the
ongoing investigation indicated Pakistani officials at a border
coordination centre had cleared the air strike, unaware they had troops
in the area.
Nadeem ruled out the
possibility that NATO forces may have thought they were firing on
militants, who often move across the porous frontier and attack Western
troops.
One newspaper reported that
he told the Senate committee that militants do not leave themselves
exposed on mountain tops, like the ones where the Pakistani border posts
were located.
Senator Azim also
quoted Nadeem as saying that NATO helicopters singled out one army major
as he was crossing from one border post to another after losing
communications, and this also led the military to conclude the attack
was planned.
Pakistan responded to the attack by suspending supply routes to NATO forces in Afghanistan.
Idle
drivers of trucks carrying fuel and other supplies to the neighboring
country fear being attacked by Pakistani Taliban militants who oppose
cooperation with NATO.
Militants
fired a rocket-propelled grenade at such trucks in the southwestern city
of Quetta in Baluchistan province on Thursday night, setting fire to 29
vehicles, police officials said.
Washington,
which sees Pakistan as critical to its efforts to stabilize Afghanistan
ahead of a combat troop pullout in 2014, has tried to sooth fury over
the NATO incident.
President
Barack Obama called Pakistan’s president to offer condolences over the
strike that provoked a crisis in relations between the two countries. He
stopped short of a formal apology.
Pakistan boycotted an international conference in Germany on the future of Afghanistan because of the NATO attack.
U.S.-Pakistani ties were already frayed after the secret U.S. raid in May that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

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Nato Attack on Pakistan Army, an overview.

Posted on 30 November 2011 by Tea Server


Nato Air attack on Pakistan Army: Capt Usman n Major Mujahid Shaheed,who got martrydom Last Morning

Pakistan gave the US 15 days to leave the Shamsi airfield. It also
announced that NATO supply routes into Afghanistan will be shut down.
The move comes after NATO troops killed at least 26 Pakistani soldiers
in two separate air strikes in Pakistan. The Shamsi airbase is used by
the CIA to carry out secret operations in the Pakistani desert.

Major Mujahid frm 105 L/C who embraced shahadat in NATO attack on Pakistani checkpost in Salsala Village..


PESHAWAR: Pakistani authorities on
Saturday blocked the NATO supply route to Afghanistan after an attack on
a border checkpost killed at least 24 Pakistani soldiers. The attack by
NATO helicopters on a checkpost located in Mohmand Agnecy killed at
least 24 soldiers and injured 12.

Official sources confirmed the suspension of supplies, adding that
all containers were stopped at the Takhta Baig checkpost in Jamrud
tehsil of Khyber Agency.
“We have suspended the supply and will not let even a single
container move ahead”, the official added. ”Supply trucks are being sent
back to Peshawar.” Takhta Baig is the first checkpost followed by four
more check-posts in the tribal areas and is the shortest possible route
to Afghanistan

War games spotlight China-Pakistan
hype as Pakistan have blocked the supply route to NATO & US Forces
in Afghanistan in protest to NATO raid which killed eight Pakistani
troops.


Uniform of Captain Bilal Zafar Shaheed after being hit by a rocket launcher.
Bilal was from a family credited
with a hundred years of the service in the armed forces; his great grand
father Subedar Lal Khan served in the First World War and won the
George Cross. His grandfather Tajjamal Hussain retired as a Colonel and
his father Zafar Tajammul Abbasi was a Captain in the Pakistan Army.
Capt Bilal’s maternal grandfather was also in the army and his brother
Captain Zarrar is also serving in the army. Rest in peace Capt Bilal
with your family of soldiers

JHELUM: Paratroopers hurtling head first out of planes, attack
helicopters strafing a terror training centre and shacks blown to bits
were this week’s latest embodiment of China-Pakistan friendship.
The war games conducted by 540 Chinese and Pakistani soldiers running
around scrubland —the fourth joint exercises since 2006 —were
ostensibly a chance for China to benefit from Pakistan’s
counter-terrorism experience.
There was disappointment that fighter jets were unable to carry out a
bombing raid, with visibility apparently poor, but the exercises were
declared a success in terms of deepening friendship and improving
military cooperation.
But behind the pomp rolled out for the Chinese, complete with slap-up
marquee lunch and bags of presents, the relationship is as
transactional as any other, as China competes with Pakistan’s arch-rival
India for Asian dominance.
And it is far from easy to decipher. “They operate silently so as not
to make any statements in public apart from cliches. So one doesn’t
know what’s happening,” said retired Pakistani general Talat Masood.
China is Pakistan’s main arms supplier, while Beijing has built two
nuclear power plants in Pakistan and is contracted to construct two more
reactors.
But the alliance has been knocked by Chinese accusations that the
separatist East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), which wants an
independent homeland for Xinjiang’s Muslim Uighurs, is training
“terrorists” in Pakistani camps.
Those accusations mirror long-standing concerns from the United
States that Taliban and al Qaeda bases are funnelling recruits to fight
in Afghanistan and hatch terror plots against the West.
During the exercises outside Jhelum, 85 kilometres (50 miles)
southeast of Islamabad, generals watched troops attack, clear and
destroy a mocked-up training camp, while smoking and sipping cups of tea
under a giant tent to keep off winter rays.
Chinese deputy chief of staff Hou Shusen and Pakistan’s army chief
Ashfaq Kayani sat together in the front row, guests of honour incapable
of talking to each other without the help of an interpreter.
“We have done our utmost to eliminate this threat of ETIM and other
extremists for China because we consider honestly that China’s security
is very dear to Pakistan,” Kayani told a news conference after the war
games.
He said that Pakistan had provided intelligence during the 2008
Beijing Olympics and the 2010 Shanghai Expo, and reiterated demands for
closer military cooperation and larger imports of military hardware from
China.
Beijing was instrumental in getting the United Nations and United
States to blacklist ETIM as a terrorist organisation in 2002, but
experts have questioned how much of a threat such a small group of
people really poses.
Pakistani analysts believe members number no more than hundreds and
are fairly dispersed in the remote mountains on the Pakistan-China
border.
Despite that issue, if the language used to describe Pakistan’s
febrile relationship with the United States is that of an unhappy couple
wishing but unable to divorce, then the hyperbole used to describe
China is that of an ecstatic lover.
“Higher than mountains” and “sweeter than honey” were phrases used by
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani when Chinese Public Security Minister
Meng Jianzhu came to town in September, at a time when relations with
the US were at their most difficult in years.
The top US military officer, Admiral Mike Mullen, had just accused
Pakistan of colluding with Afghan militants in besieging the US embassy
in Kabul as ties plummeted further after the raid that killed Osama bin
Laden.
But independent China analyst Michael Dillon says that without any
real ideological links, China’s relationship with Pakistan is primarily
strategic, designed to offset its rivalry with India.
“There is a feeling that cooperation with Pakistan on counter-terrorism might be in China’s interests,” he told AFP.
“They’ve got economic domination over Southeast Asia. But South Asia
is another matter. The big rival is India. If they can get close
diplomatically to Pakistan then it can balance the power of India in the
subcontinent,” he said.
Neither can China present an alternative to the US alliance.
But Kayani described China as “very important” to regional stability,
perhaps best seen against a backdrop of Pakistan’s own rivalry with
India.
“It’s not a zero-sum game. You further strengthen your relations with
China, then you increase your importance. You use this as a leverage to
improve your relationship with the US,” said Masood.

اے جذبہ دل گر ميں چاہوں ہر چيز مقابل آجائے
منزل کے لئے دو گام چلوں اور سامنے منزل آجائے
اے دل کي خلش چل يوں ہي سہي چلتا تو ہوں ان کي محفل ميں
اس وقت مجھے چونکا دينا جب رنگ پہ محفل آجائے
اے رہبر کامل چل ديکھو، تيار تو ہوں پر يار رہے
اس وقت مجھے بھٹکا دينا جب سامنے منزل آجائے
ہاں ياد مجھے تم کر لينا آواز مجھے تم دے لينا
اس راہ محبت ميں کوئي درپيش جو مشکل آجائے
اب کيوں ڈھونڈوں وہ چشم کرم ہونے دے ستم بالائے ستم
ميں چاہتا ہوں اے جذبہ غم مشکل پہ مشکل آجائے

They have given their time
They have given their all
For Pakistan that said we made them fall.
Some say this is for power,
Some same this is for the fame.
We need to stop placing any and all the blames.
We have a country that has needs to,
Many lost their lives, and many lost their limbs.
Some lost their minds, and others lost their will.
Some don’t have homes, some don’t have food.
But this is our Pakistan who’s out to do good.
Give to your own, and then think of the world.
Lets fix our backyards before we fix theirs.
Our Pakistan is rich, with many things indeed.
But lets give aid to our people in the time of their needs.
So when you see a Soldier or someone in Uniform,
Please salute or shake their hand, and say JOB WELL DONE.

Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Prevez Kayani and Chinese General Hu
Sho Sen are watching joint war games of Pakistani – Chinese commandos in
Jehlum.
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What has America done for us?

Posted on 25 November 2011 by Tea Server

Pakistan received $3.5 billion in economic assistance from the United States over 15 years from 1952 to 1967. This was more than three times the combined aid provided by West Germany, Canada, Great Britain and Japan. From 2002 to 2010, the US has been the biggest donor to Pakistan with approximately $4 billion in direct aid. Its security assistance support was $462 million in fiscal year 2008, $884 million in FY 2009, and $1,114 million in FY 2010. This does not include the Coalition Support Fund (CSF), a reimbursement programme for expenses incurred by Pakistani military for its assistance to the US. CSF reimbursements since 2001 total approximately $8.88 billion.

A famous Pakistani musician insists the US is destroying Pakistani agriculture by spreading a dangerous pesticide, not knowing that American Nobel laureate Dr Norman Borlaug was behind the Green Revolution in Pakistan
The military hardware provided by the United States includes 17 F-16 block 52 fighters delivered to the PAF at Shabaz Air Base in 2010, two Bell 412 helicopters, nine fast patrol boats delivered to the maritime security agency in 2010, PNS Alamgir frigate to Pakistan Navy in 2010, 115 M109A5 Howitzer self propelled field artillery cannons, two P-3C Orion aircraft (destroyed in the May 22 terrorist attack on PNS Mehran naval base) and more than 450 vehicles for the Frontier Corps. More than 370 military officers were trained in a leadership and development programme covering topics such as counterterrorism, intelligence, logistics, medicine, flight safety and military law.

The US provided numerous helicopters for flood relief operations and gave $190 million to the citizen’s flood damage compensation fund. It has assisted Pakistan in various hydroelectric power projects including major co-operation on the Gomal Zam Dam.

But Pakistanis are sceptical. “Why is the US bringing floods in Pakistan using Harp Technology?” a journalist asked at a recent media workshop. “We know who is really funding the Pakistani Taliban,” a military officer said sarcastically at an event, forgetting that Pakistan Army has repeatedly made peace deals with the TTP and it was a US drone strike that killed its leader Baitullah Mesud. A famous Pakistani musician insists that the US is destroying Pakistani agriculture by spreading a dangerous pesticide, perhaps not knowing that an American Nobel laureate, Dr Norman Borlaug, was behind what is known as the Green Revolution in Pakistan that allowed a country haunted by famine become self-sufficient in food production by 1968.

“It is Pakistan’s choice if it wants to ask us for aid,” a senior diplomat said. “Our interest lies in the stability of Pakistan and nothing more. Most of the aid has been used up by the military, and that should change.”

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