Haqqanis to submit or be killed: US

[Carlo]

US national security adviser Thomas E Donilon is reported to have told Gen Kayani at a secret meeting in Saudi Arabia earlier this month that Pakistan must either kill the Haqqani leadership, help the US to kill them or persuade them to join a peaceful, democratic Afghan government.

BBC News - Pakistan warns US over unilateral military action

[Talal]

might as well post the whole thing



Pakistan warns US over unilateral military action

Gen Kayani wants the US to focus on stabilising Afghanistan

Pakistan's army chief Ashfaq Kayani has warned the US that it will have to think "10 times" before taking any unilateral action in North Waziristan.

He said that the US should focus on stabilising Afghanistan instead of pushing Pakistan to attack militant groups in the crucial border region.

Washington has for many years urged Islamabad to deal with militants in the area, especially the Haqqani network.

It has been blamed for a series of recent attacks in Afghanistan.

"If someone convinced me that all problems will be solved by taking action in North Waziristan, I'd do it tomorrow," a parliamentarian who attended a briefing given by Gen Kayani quoted him as saying.

"If we need to take action, we will do it on our schedule and according to our capacity."

Gen Kayani told the closed-door parliamentary defence committee meeting in Rawalpindi that any withdrawal of American assistance would not affect Pakistan's defence capabilities.

'Very focused'

The Haqqani network - believed to be linked to the Taliban and al-Qaeda - is accused of carrying out last month's 19-hour siege of the US embassy in Kabul.


The US has blamed the recent attack on Kabul's US embassy on the Haqqani network
Some reports say that during the briefing Gen Kayani defended Pakistani contacts with the group as "useful" for intelligence gathering.

The verbal and military fight waged by the US against the network has intensified in recent months and is the main cause of tension between the US-led coalition in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

US national security adviser Thomas E Donilon is reported to have told Gen Kayani at a secret meeting in Saudi Arabia earlier this month that Pakistan must either kill the Haqqani leadership, help the US to kill them or persuade them to join a peaceful, democratic Afghan government.

In September outgoing Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm Mike Mullen called the Haqqanis a "veritable arm" of the Pakistani intelligence agency, accusing it of directly supporting the militants who had mounted the attack on the US embassy.

But Pakistan has been reluctant to give in to US pressure on the issue. Last month Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said that his country "will not bow to US pressure" on fighting militancy.

A senior official in Afghanistan said on Tuesday that the coalition was "very focused" now on the Haqqani network.


The Haqqani network is thought have bases in Pakistan's volatile tribal regions
He said that the Haqqani network operates mainly in Khost, Paktia and Paktika provinces, but there has been a significant increase in its activities in Wardak and Logar provinces.

Afghan and Nato officials argue that Pakistan's reluctance to confront the Haqqani network has forced them to increase missile strikes against them in their safe haven of North Waziristan.

For months, the US has been targeting militants, including members of the Haqqani group, in Pakistan's tribal areas near the Afghan border - some in the US Congress are now calling for it to go beyond drone strikes.

Pakistan's military was deeply angered and humiliated when US commandos killed al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in a secret raid on Pakistani soil in May.

While Pakistan has long denied supporting the Haqqani group, BBC correspondents say it has a decades-old policy of pursuing foreign policy objectives through alliances with militants.

[graveyardofempires]

Threatening a pashtun?

[Toramana]

Punjabis gone berserk.

[sanman]

Haqqanis themselves are a big threat to Pashtuns, because they are bandits who only want to keep people backward under their dark rule.

[Toramana]

Haqqanis are lapdogs of Punjabi generals in Rawalpindi...They are traitors of Pashtuns and must be punished for their treason to Pashtuns.

[good]

Good. They should just catch all the terrorists.

[graveyardofempires]

Haqqanis are lapdogs of Punjabi generals in Rawalpindi...They are traitors of Pashtuns and must be punished for their treason to Pashtuns.

Lol
U sound like jinah reincarnate

[Toramana]

Lol
U sound like jinah reincarnate

And you sure are another Osama Bin Laden in the making...

[graveyardofempires]

And you sure are another Osama Bin Laden in the making...

Lol u are becoming a good comediam
U hate islam yet claim to be pro pashtun.
How about some honesty and say it
Btw real pashtuns are known througout the history.

[tor_khan]

Staff Message:

Stick to topic people. Debate the points, not each other. Thanks.

[Talal]

" CIA chief David Petraeus will be among an army of high-level US officials with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton when she arrives in Islamabad on Thursday to ramp up pressure on Pakistan to do more to stop militant... "

something wicked this way comes, i fear that a confrontation between Pakistan and US is in the offing or this might be them just blowing hot air

[sanman]

Haqqanis are tiny compared to the rest of the world. They can be defeated. It's upto Pakistan if they want to see their entire ship go down with the Haqqanis.

Pakistan may be issuing warnings, but they're reduced to hollow posturing. The US has now moved for stronger supply lines through Uzbekistan, and so Pakistan's games have only made it the loser.

[tor_khan]

Ok
Tor jan
But i suggest you guys do more on your pukhtunwali

Suggesting perhaps that the definition of/discussions around etc. deserves a thread of its own.