{"id":137914,"date":"2014-08-21T16:38:53","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T16:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=137914"},"modified":"2014-08-21T16:38:53","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T16:38:53","slug":"pakistans-payback-drone-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/pakistans-payback-drone-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan\u2019s Payback for Drone Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #666666;\">The United States mounts attacks on Pakistani soil \u2013 and the Pakistani military actually invades Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Russ Wellen<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the course of an October 3, 2011 article at MEMRI titled\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0c74a6;\" title=\"The Failing U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.memri.org\/report\/en\/0\/0\/0\/0\/0\/0\/5689.htm\" target=\"_blank\">The Failing U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan<\/a>, Tufail Ahmad and Y. Carmon puncture the myth that the Taliban is negotiating, or preparing to negotiate, with the United States. (MEMRI is the Middle East Media Research Institute.) Even more of a revelation \u2013 at least to me \u2014they report that Pakistan mounted a series of military attacks on Afghanistan this year. Here\u2019s a sample:<span id=\"more-25242\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In February 2011, Pakistani planes also bombarded Afghan Border Police posts and civilians\u2019 homes in Afghanistan\u2019s Nangarhar and Khost provinces. \u2026 In June 2011, Pakistan launched a series of missile and artillery attacks on the Afghan provinces of Kunar, Nangarhar, Khost and Paktia, killing dozens of civilians which were described by the Afghan government in a resolution as an \u201cact of invasion\u201d by Pakistan. On June 26, 2011, Afghan President Hamid Karzai accused Pakistan of firing 470 missiles into the eastern Afghan provinces. \u2026 In a July 2, 2011 testimony before the parliament, Afghan Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak confirmed that two Pakistani helicopters entered the Afghan territory sometime in the summer of 2011.\u00a0On July 5, 2011, Afghan border police commander Aminullah Amarkhel reported that hundreds of fighters from the Pakistani Taliban crossed the border into Afghanistan\u2019s Nuristan province, where they attacked police outposts and torched homes. \u2026 on the eastern borders of Afghanistan with Pakistan, and that Pakistan has established 16 security checkposts inside Afghanistan\u2019s territory; 31 Pakistani security checkposts on the border with eastern Afghanistan were also seen as a threat to Afghanistan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s embarrassing enough for the United States that Pakistan not only refuses to clamp down on, but enables, the Haqqani network\u2019s campaign in Afghanistan. But when Pakistan\u2019s military itself invades Afghanistan, it nudges our campaign there into the realm of the farcical. At least, though, it permits Pakistan a degree of payback for our drone attacks on Pakistan\u2019s soil, as well as the raid on Abbottabad.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/fpif.org\/pakistans-payback-drone-attacks\/?utm_source=feedly&amp;utm_reader=feedly&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=pakistans-payback-drone-attacks\" target=\"_blank\">This piece<\/a> was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\" target=\"_blank\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States mounts attacks on Pakistani soil \u2013 and the Pakistani military actually invades Afghanistan. Russ Wellen In the course of an October 3, 2011 article at MEMRI titled\u00a0The Failing U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan, Tufail Ahmad and Y. Carmon puncture the myth that the Taliban is negotiating, or preparing to negotiate, with the United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":137915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-137914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-war-terrorism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}