Pakistan to NATO: Take Us Into Confidence on Afghan Operations, Thaindian, 4 February 2010
EXCERPT: "Pakistan Thursday urged the US-led NATO forces to take it into confidence before launching operations in areas adjacent to its borders in Afghanistan. 'Pakistan’s army should be taken into confidence before launching any offensive by US-led coalition troops at areas, adjacent to Pakistan’s border,' army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani told a visiting NATO commander, Online news agency reported, quoting sources. 'The coalition forces should ensure that no terrorist or extremist enters in Pakistan’s area during the operation,' Kayani told Lt Gen William B. Caldwell, commander of the NATO training mission in Afghanistan. The remarks come as NATO and the Afghan army are planning their biggest joint offensive since the beginning of the Afghan war in Helmand and other areas."
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