Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Toh, il Pakistan esiste!

Sconcerto in "Occidente" :)
-- 
Namib
"Il patriottismo più ardente è [...] sempre quello delle retrovie"
(Aleksàndr Solzenicyn, "Arcipelago Gulag", Milano 2007, I, p. 178)
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Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistan's foreign minister said Wednesday his 
country may use military force to stop violations of its territory.
"We will not allow anyone in any case to interfere in Pakistan's territory 
and if this continues, we will adopt all the set measures including military 
action," Rehman Malik told reporters. "I assure you we are quite capable of 
defending our homeland."
Malik said he was referring to two incidents of aerial engagements from the 
Afghanistan side into Pakistani territory by helicopters with the NATO-led 
International Security Assistance Force over the weekend, in which dozens of 
suspected militants were killed in what Pakistan said was its territory.
Islamabad strongly protested the action and sent a demarche -- a formal 
protest relayed through diplomatic channels -- to NATO headquarters in 
Brussels, Belgium.
"These incidents are a clear violation and breach of the U.N. mandate under 
which ISAF operates. The said mandate "terminates/finishes" at the 
Afghanistan border. There are no agreed "hot pursuit" rules. Any impression 
to the contrary is not factually correct. Such violations are unacceptable," 
said a statement from Pakistan's foreign affairs ministry on Monday.
"ISAF/NATO has been asked not to participate in any military action that 
violates the U.N. mandate and infringes upon Pakistan's sovereignty. In the 
absence of immediate corrective measures, Pakistan will be constrained to 
consider response options," the statement continued.
Malik said Wednesday that Pakistan has protested the action to Afghanistan 
as well and will also voice its concerns to the United States.
ISAF described one of the incidents in a statement Monday, saying that "an 
air weapons team engaged a significant number of insurgents following an 
attack on a remote Afghan National Security Force outpost in Khost province 
Saturday."
Khost province, in Afghanistan's northeast, borders Pakistan. ISAF said more 
than 30 insurgents were killed in the strike.
"Initial reports indicate no civilians were injured or killed during the 
operation," the ISAF statment said. "At no time during the engagement did 
ground forces cross into Pakistan territory."
The Pakistani government has had to toe a fine line: While touting its help 
and willingness to assist in the war on terror, it also strongly defends its 
sovereignty and has loudly protested strikes by suspected drones in its 
territory that have killed some civilians.
A series of drone strikes each day since Saturday have killed at least 12 
suspected militants in Pakistan's tribal region on the border with 
Afghanistan, two Pakistani intelligence officials told CNN Tuesday. One of 
those killed was a top al Qaeda commander, Sheikh Mohammad Fateh al Masri, 
the officials said.
The United States does not normally comment on suspected drone strikes, but 
it's the only country operating in the area known to have the capability to 
launch missiles from drones, which are operated remotely. 

si segnala l'utilizzo abusivo del mio nominativo da parte di sedicente
giuseppe lucchesini
prego di non rispondere per non premiare l'idiozia di questi
comportamenti