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Article: New US-Pakistani Approach.
- Article from:
- APS Diplomat News Service
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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A joint US-Pakistani military campaign against the Taliban and its allies has inflicted heavy casualties on the Neo-Salafi militants. Amid the growing militant threat, The New York Times on Aug. 29 reported that the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, had on Aug. 26 secretly convened a highly unusual meeting of senior American and Pakistani commanders, including Pakistani Chief of Staff Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, on an aircraft carrier in the Indian Ocean to discuss how to combat the escalating violence along the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. The US now is providing the Pakistani armed forces with drone surveillance and a limited number ...