Pakistan: US strikes unacceptable
Pakistani Intelligence chief says American strikes on local terrorists 'unacceptable'
US military action against insurgents in Pakistan would be unacceptable and the country's army would be capable of responding, intelligence chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha told a meeting of political leaders in Islamabad, according to media reports.
Express News TV cited Pasha as saying an "American attack on Pakistan in the name of (fighting) extremism is not acceptable."
However, several television news reports said Pasha had also told an all-party meeting to discuss the crisis in ties between Washington and Islamabad that Pakistan would not allow the situation to get to a "point of no return".
Pakistan has long faced US demands to attack militants on its side of the border with Afghanistan.
But the pressure has escalated since the top US military officer, Admiral Mike Mullen, accused Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI last week of supporting an attack by the militant Haqqani network on the US Embassy in Kabul.
Support is growing in the US Congress for expanding American military action in Pakistan beyond drone strikes against militants, said Senator Lindsey Graham, an influential Republican voice on foreign policy and military affairs.
Islamabad is reluctant to go after the Haqqanis - even though the United States provides billions of dollars in aid - saying its troops are stretched fighting Taliban insurgents.
Pakistan says it has sacrificed more lives than any of the countries that joined the "war on terror" after the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States in 2001.
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