ISLAMABAD — Pakistan said Thursday that visiting CIA chief Leon Panetta had promised to respect its sovereignty and examine reports that NATO helicopters conducted deadly cross-border raids from Afghanistan.
Panetta has been holding talks with Pakistani leaders in the wake of reports that Western intelligence agencies uncovered an Al-Qaeda plot hatched in Pakistan to carry out attacks in Britain, France and Germany.
The spy chief's visit also comes amid an intensification in the covert American drone war against Al-Qaeda-linked commanders in North Waziristan, Pakistan's most notorious stronghold of Taliban and Al-Qaeda linked militants.
Pakistan shut down the main land route for NATO supplies into Afghanistan on Thursday after officials accused NATO of killing two Pakistani troops in the fourth cross-border attack this week.
No comments:
Post a Comment