Mumbai-Style Attack On PNS Mehran: Pakistani Military’s Multiple Enemies

Mumbai-Style Attack On PNS Mehran: Pakistani Military’s Multiple Enemies

This is not the first Mumbai-style attack in Pakistan. Pakistani military is not an easy target for bandits based on the Afghan border. The sophisticated attacks inside Pakistan after 2005 reveal formal training and superior equipment for fighting and communication. Pakistani military is under attack by several powers in the region since 2002.

The White House faces criticism over Osama Operation Leaks

WASHINGTON: The White House faced criticism Friday that it had failed to safeguard secrets about the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound and that the leaks could jeopardise future operations.

Information about the US raid and what was found at the al Qaeda leader’s hideout in Pakistan has steadily leaked out since Bin Laden was killed by at team of Navy commandos on May 2.

CIA Director Leon Panetta was the first to reveal some details to a hungry media, confirming that US Navy SEALs led the assault and that his spy agency had only circumstantial proof beforehand that Bin Laden was inside the walled compound.

Govt asked to review relations with US

ISLAMABAD:
Pakistani lawmakers unequivocally condemnedUS unilateral action in Abbottabad and called for a review of the country’s terms of engagement with the United States in a resolution passed after an almost 10-hour marathon joint session of Parliament, briefed in-camera by intelligence, military and air force chiefs.

The lawmakers also warned the US against conducting unilateral operations in Pakistani territory, including drone strikes, failing which the government may consider withdrawal of transit facility to Nato/Isaf forces in Afghanistan.