The chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff secretly convened a highly unusual meeting of senior
American and Pakistani commanders on an aircraft carrier in the Indian Ocean on
Tuesday to discuss how to combat the escalating violence along the border
between Pakistan
and Afghanistan.
While officials from the two allies offered few details on Wednesday about
what was decided or even discussed at the meeting — including any new
strategies, tactics, weapons or troop deployments — the star-studded list of
participants and the extreme secrecy surrounding the talks underscored how
gravely both nations regard the growing militant threat.
The leading actors in the daylong conference were Adm. Mike
Mullen , chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Gen. Ashfaq Parvez
Kayani, chief of staff of the Pakistani Army.
Joining them aboard the carrier Abraham
Lincoln were Gen. David
H. Petraeus , the top American commander in Iraq, who will soon become ...
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ISLAMABAD, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Pakistan’s army has halted construction of an expensive new headquarters in the capital, Islamabad, because of the dire economic woes facing the country.... more
After two months of heavy fighting the Pakistani army claims it has captured a strategically important Taliban military position in the country’s Bajaur province, various news agencies report.
According to unconfirmed reports some 1,500 gunmen and 73 soldiers were killed in what is being described as tough fighting in tunnels and heavy fortifications surrounding the village.
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