Pakistan will not permit United States aircraft and forces to violate its airspace to attack Al Qaeda targets in the country, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said.
"We are very capable of tackling such activities ourselves. Our armed forces are well-equipped. We do not allow any country to violate our sovereignty. We are committed to fighting terrorism, but it has to be fought together," he said in an interview to
CNN.
However, Pakistan is firmly committed to fight terrorism, he said, underlining the need for striving collectively to make the world a safer place to live in.
US President George W Bush had said that he would order military operations inside Pakistan if terror mastermind Osama bin Laden or other top terrorists were found to be hiding there.
Aziz said terrorism was not going to disappear overnight, but perhaps it 'will induce everyone to look at the root causes of terrorism and address them so that this threat, which knows no borders, was linked to no faith or geography and could affect anybody any time, was gradually eliminated.'
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