Peshawar - 9th December 2011
Today on Friday Pakistan has upgraded its air defence system on the Afghan border to make it capable of shooting down aircraft, after ISAF (International security Assistance Force) air-strike which ended up killed 25 Pakistan Army's soldiers.
The upgrade also include a fully equipped air defence system on the Pak-Afghan border. It has the capability to trace and detect any invader aircraft from the order side of the border. The step had been taken to avert air incursions from Afghanistan and to respond to any future air strikes. The system has also been upgraded to immediately respond after detecting any aircraft or helicopter and to shoot it down.
Pakistan shut its border to ISAF supply convoys on 26th November, the same day as the deadliest single cross-border attack of the 10-year war in Afghanistan. The government also ordered the United States to clear out the Shamsi air base in the southwest, widely reported as a hub in the covert CIA drone war against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Pakistan’s border area with Afghanistan. Pakistan gave tacit support to the programme, but no US drone strike has been reported on Pakistani soil since 17th November 2011.
The November 26 attacks brought the fragile Pakistani-US alliance to a fresh low, already reeling from an American stealth raid that killed Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Abottabad on 2nd May 2011. It was after that raid, conducted by US Navy SEALs who flew in from Afghanistan.
US President Barack Obama has expressed condolences over the November 26 border deaths, insisting it was not a “deliberate attack” by ISAF as claimed by the Pakistani army.
---PMG News © 2011---
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