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<h4 id="pagesub">PM Hints at Possible Retaliation Over Killings</h4>
<div class="details"> by Jason Ditz, October 01, 2010 </div>
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<p>Pakistani officials are continuing to angrily condemn NATO over
yesterday’s attack on its security forces, with Prime Minister
Yousef Raza <a
href="http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010%5C10%5C02%5Cstory_2-10-2010_pg1_4">Gilani
warning that the nation has “other options” for possible
retaliation if NATO refuses to apologize</a>.</p>
<p><img src="cid:part1.03030606.09070100@illinois.edu" alt=""
align="right" hspace="10" vspace="10">So far Pakistan has
closed one of its major border crossings to Afghanistan to NATO
supply traffic, but a number of senators have been calling on
the nation to close the borders entirely, and<a
href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/10/01/outrage-intensifies-pakistan-nato-strikes-militants-attack-fuel-trucks/">
protests have broken out across the nation condemning NATO in
general and the US in particular</a>.</p>
<p><a
href="http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Gunmen-Torch-NATO-Tankers-in-Pakistan-104152049.html">Growing
numbers of NATO tankers have been set ablaze by militants</a>
across Pakistan as well, and the future status of Pakistan as a
key ally in the war on terror remains very much in doubt, as <a
href="http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/10/01/1853096/pakistans-zardari-defiant-as-he.html">Zardari’s
pro-US reputation becomes increasingly untenable</a>
politically, and key allies like Gilani and Interior Minister
Rehman Malik stake out independent positions.</p>
<p>The Thursday attack, which killed three members of Pakistan’s
Frontier Corps, was just the latest in a number of cross-border
strikes, which are coming at a time when the US is also
dramatically escalating its drone strikes against Pakistan’s
tribal areas. Pakistan’s military is fighting a number of wars
in the region, largely at the Obama Administration’s behest, but
the strikes seem to be causing a major rift, and one which <a
href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j4SLWCc966S5TvfKXxB-cEO8SiPwD9IJ7V280?docId=D9IJ7V280">US
officials are continuing to downplay</a> even as it clearly
worsens.<br>
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