Obama will not apologise to Pakistan: White House

The White House has decided that President Obama will not offer formal condolences — at least for now — to Pakistan for the deaths of two dozen soldiers in NATO airstrikes on a Pakistani check post in Mohmand Aagency last week, overruling State Department officials who argued for such a show of remorse to help salvage America’s relationship with Pakistan, administration officials said.
On Monday, Cameron Munter, the United States ambassador to Pakistan, told a group of White House officials that a formal video statement from Obama was needed to help prevent the rapidly deteriorating relations between Islamabad and Washington. The ambassador, speaking by videoconference from Islamabad, said that anger in Pakistan had reached a fever pitch, and that the United States needed to move to defuse it as quickly as possible, the officials recounted.

Kiyani suspends ‘chain of command’ system to tackle Nato’s assault.

COAS General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has suspended ‘chain of command’ system to counter any aggression.

Sources revealed the Army Chief has deferred the chain of the command system in order to empower the senior officers on the posts to take proper action in case Pakistani forces come under attack.

Sources said that decision would, however, be applicable to eventualities involving Nato troops.

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