Conditional intelligence sharing with US: Kayani

It has been clearly put across to US intelligence officials that no intelligence agency can be allowed to carry out independent operation on our soil, said an unusually detailed statement issued by the military after the meeting of the armys top commanders late Thursday.

Kayani informed his commanders that military to military relationship with the US has to be viewed within the larger ambit of bilateral relations between the two countries. It had to be assessed afresh in the backdrop of May 2 incident when unilateral raid by US killed Osama and peoples opinion among other things.

In line with the demands of these important factors,Army has drastically cut down the strength of US troops stationed in Pakistan. It needs to be clarified that Army had never accepted any training assistance from the US except for training on the newly inducted weapons and some training assistance for the Frontier Corps only. Even that has ceased now, it said.

Talking about the reports of looming military operation in North Waziristan under pressure from the US,the statement said,COAS Kayani informed the participants that the Army was following a well thought out campaign plan and is under no pressure to carry out operations at a particular time8230;Future operations,as and when undertaken,will be with political consensus. But the statement hinted at a possible change of tactics for dealing with the North Waziristan problem. Kayani called upon people of North Waziristan Agency to evict all foreigners from their soil and take charge of their land and destiny once again.