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Unexploded US missile found in Pakistan
QUETTA (AFP) - An unexploded missile carrying US
markings has been found in a remote part of Balochistan province, officials here said
Sunday.
"It bears US markings and is believed to be a cruise
missile," said a senior official who did not want to be named.
The missile is lying about 10 kilometers (six miles) from a
dusty township called Kharan near where Pakistan conducted its six nuclear tests in May in
response to Indian nuclear detonations, officials said.
The projectile was found on Saturday, two days after the
United States fired cruise missiles at alleged terrorist targets in Afghanistan which
borders the province to the north.
A bomb disposal squad has been sent to the area and a report
from them is awaited, the officials said.
The news travelled here late because the Kharan area is far
from the provincial capital Quetta, they said.
The disclosure comes after the government categorically
stated no US missile landed on Pakistani soil during the attack has triggered an uproar in
Afghanistan and widespread resentment in Pakistan.
On Friday Pakistan first said a missile hit its border area
near the Afghan town of Khost, killing six people. But the official statement was promptly
withdrawn on the grounds it was based on wrong information.
Late Saturday the government fired its intelligence boss
Chaudhry Manzoor Ahmed for the lapse.
Another top official in North West Frontier Province
bordering Afghanistan was also relieved from his post for similar reasons.
Pak under pressure as questions mount on US
strike
ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistan's government is
coming under mounting pressure from military and religious figures to come clean over
whether it supplied vital information to the United States for Thursday's missile strikes
on Afghanistan.
Former army chief Mirza Aslam Beg, in a statement published
Sunday, alleged the government allowed US intelligence agencies to operate on Pakistani
soil to track down Osama bin Laden, one of the targets of the attacks.
Beg demanded that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif disclose what
cooperation his government had given the US and said American warships had been in
Pakistani waters for about two weeks.
"The government should come out with the truth,"
demanded retired general Hamid Gul, former head of the military's Inter-Services
Intelligence.
Gul said Saturday that US cruise missiles aimed at Afghan
guerilla bases had violated Pakistani sovereignty by using its airspace.
"America has committed aggression against our
territorial waters, sovereignty and airspace," he said, urging the government to
demand an unconditional apology from Washington and break all relations if one was not
forthcoming.
Islamabad has voiced its "indignation" at the US
raids on targets in Afghanistan and Sudan, calling them a violation of the sovereignty of
independent states.
Bin Laden, who is blamed for the August 7 bombings at US
embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam that left 257 dead, has promised retaliation for
the strikes.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said the government did not
allow any use of its territory for the attack on what the US called terrorist training
bases in Afghanistan. But accusations persist.
The head of the religious Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam party, Maulana
Fazlur Rehman, said the government's "patriotism has become doubtful," adding it
was a "security risk" and had lost the right to rule.
"Let Nawaz Sharif swear on the Koran (the Muslim holy
book) that no help was provided to the US," said Rehman, who is known for his links
to Afghanistan's hardline Taliban Islamic militia.
Defence experts quoted by The Muslim newspaper said either
Pakistani radar systems were jammed or the strike happened with "prior information
and consent" of the Pakistani authorities.
Chaudhry Manzoor Ahmed, director general of the Intelligence
Bureau, was sacked a day after a foreign ministry spokesman said Pakistan had protested to
the United States over the incident but later withdrew the information.
The government said Ahmed was responsible for the blunder. It
said no missile hit Pakistani territory when the cruise missiles crashed into bases in
Afghanistan's eastern region of Khost close to the Pakistan border.
Rustam Shah Mohmand, the top civil servant heading the
administration in North West Frontier Province bordering Afghanistan, has also been
removed from his post, officials said.
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