Pakistan protests after US strike kills four civilians
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan, March 13 (AFP): Pakistan lodged a protest with coalition forces in Afghanistan Thursday after two Pakistani women and two children were killed by US fire from across the border, the army said. The US-led coalition confirmed that it had launched a “precision guided” strike on Pakistani territory but said it targeted a militant compound. Chief Pakistani military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas said coalition artillery fire destroyed the victims’ house in the tribal region of 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,” Abbas told AFP. “We have lodged a very strong protest with the coalition forces across the border,” he said. Local officials said the house in the town of Lwara Mundi belonged to a local tribesman. In Kabul, a spokesman for the US-led coalition said it could not comment directly on the Pakistani account but confirmed it had launched a strike on the other side of the porous 1,500-mile frontier. “We can confirm a precision-guided ammunition strike on March 12 on a compound connected with Haqqani network 1.5 kilometres (about a mile) across the border in Pakistan,” coalition spokesman Major Chris Belcher told AFP. “I do not have any information on any casualties that may have occurred,” the spokesman said. Belcher said that “The information I have is that the government of Pakistan was notified immediately following the strike.” (First Posted @ 14:00 PST, Updated @ 16:05 PST)
Re: Pakistan protests after US strike kills four civilians
^then who can be more stronger than Mush in that category. If you have some understanding problem, stronger means, strong in brains supported by people, not in muscle supported by dictatorship:D
Re: Pakistan protests after US strike kills four civilians
^I think lots of people needs some ethic dose. Allies forces killing innocent Pakistanis. Normally Mush takes such responsibility. When last year a missile killed 21 young students of madersah in Wana, Mush said his military fired that rocket. But this time I don't know why change of mind?
Re: Pakistan protests after US strike kills four civilians
If we have Talibans and terrorists training in Pakistani territory, either we kill them first or we have to face the humiliation of being bombed by others.
Re: Pakistan protests after US strike kills four civilians
If we have Talibans and terrorists training in Pakistani territory, either we kill them first or we have to face the humiliation of being bombed by others.
Its not the bombing of terrorists Pakistan is protesting for, I guess that is now a "given" or understood that we won't protest bombing at 'legitimate targets', rather the protest is for the civilians who got killed.
Re: Pakistan protests after US strike kills four civilians
Its not the bombing of terrorists Pakistan is protesting for, I guess that is now a "given" or understood that we won't protest bombing at 'legitimate targets', rather the protest is for the civilians who got killed.
What's your point ehtasab bro? That Allied forces should wear white furry gloves while handling the terrorists?
Isn't it now the infamous Middle Eastern trait to hide behind civilians before firing rockets? How do then the forces respond to such eunuchian attacks?
Bro! Pak army is attacked the same way by these hide-behind-the-civilians terrorists. And when our soldiers respond, in some cases our own civilians have died.
Re: Pakistan protests after US strike kills four civilians
What's your point ehtasab bro? That Allied forces should wear white furry gloves while handling the terrorists?
Isn't it now the infamous Middle Eastern trait to hide behind civilians before firing rockets? How do then the forces respond to such eunuchian attacks?
Bro! Pak army is attacked the same way by these hide-behind-the-civilians terrorists. And when our soldiers respond, in some cases our own civilians have died.
Point? Pakistan is not protesting bombing of its areas by 'foreign govt', only that some civilians got killed.
