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\"robert\"ISLAMABAD \u2013 Angry with the Obama administration\u2019s position on arch-rival India, Pakistan\u2019s Army has rejected a US request to launch a new offensive against Taliban in the northern tribal belt.<\/div>\n

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\u201cOur resources and situation on ground do not allow us to open a new battlefront against militants in North Waziristan or any other area,\u201d Major General Ather Abbas, director general of inter services public relations (ISPR), told IslamOnline.net.
Visiting US Defense Secretary Robert Gates reportedly asked Islamabad to launch a new offensive against Taliban in North Waziristan.
\u201cI will not comment on that,\u201d Major General Abbas said.
\u201cBut certainly this has been frequently reported in the media, and their (US) desire in this regard is very obvious. One does not has to do much to understand this.
\u201cWe do not want to attain something which we cannot retain.\u201d
The spokesman said that the Army has no plans to open a new front against militants for at least one year.\u201cLaunching an offensive and capture some area is one thing, but to maintain that is totally different,\u201d he said.
The Pakistani Army launched in October a deadly offensive in South Waziristan to uproot militants of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), an umbrella group of various local groups in the region.
The Army is also engaged in fighting with Taliban militants in Orakzai, Bajur, Mohmind, and Swat.
\u201cWe have captured South Waziristan, but it is not end of the game,\u201d General Abbas said.
\u201cNow we are facing the challenges of return of affectees, their rehabilitation and rebuilding the area, which need huge resources and commitment.
\u201cIt will take between six months and a year to consolidate our achievements in areas taken back from militants. Only after that, we will be in a position to think about a new offensive.
\u201cIf we launch a new offensive, that will totally be in line with our national interest, rather than any other country\u2019s interest.\u201d<\/p>\n

India
Pakistan denies any link between refusal to open a new front against militants and Washington\u2019s position on arch-rival India or gaining more aid.
\u201cWe have not taken this decision to push US administration to entertain our demands regarding India,\u201d General Abbas said.
\u201cWe have taken this decision keeping our internal situation and available resources in view. It has nothing to do with US aid.\u201d
The Army spokesman, however, admitted that Islamabad has reservations about the US position on New Delhi.
\u201cYes, it is true that America is not addressing our reservations in this regard,\u201d he said.
Pakistan accuses Indian intelligence agencies of operating against Islamabad from Afghan soil.
Islamabad also accuses New Delhi of patronizing militant groups in the tribal areas and the southwestern province of Balochistan, where secular Baloch insurgents are fighting for independence from Pakistan, a claim denied by India.
Pakistan is also angry with Gates\u2019 praise of India\u2019s measured response to the Mumbai attacks and warning to Pakistan of retaliation if Mumbai-like attacks are repeated.
\u201cPakistan itself is facing Mumbai-like attacks everyday,\u201d Pakistani Premier Yousaf Raza Gilani was quoted as telling Gates.
\u201cWhen we cannot protect our own lands from terrorists, how can we guarantee for India.\u201d
General Abbas said Pakistan can\u2019t pay full attention to the \u201cwar on terror\u201d if its reservations regarding India are not addressed.
\u201cWe cannot pay attention on two fronts,\u201d he said.
\u201cUnfortunately, the US administration is not pressurizing India to come to the table talk.
\u201cI personally told the US officials that if we (India and Pakistan) do not talk to each other, instead of talking about each other, Pakistan will not have any other option but to safeguard its national interests and security at all costs.\u201d
Pakistan and India have fought three wars since independence from Britain in 1947, two of which were over the disputed region of Kashmir.<\/p>\n

Overstretched
Defense and security analysts agree that the overstretched army can\u2019t open a new front against militants.
\u201cAlmost one-thirds of the Pakistan army is engaged in fighting,\u201d Ikram-ul-Majeed Sehgal, a Karachi-based analyst, told IOL.
\u201cIt has shifted its focus from eastern borders to western borders. Its resources, including logistics, and ammunitions are depleting leaving army with no other option.\u201d
Sehgal opines that the situation on the ground bars the Army from launching a new offensive against militants.
\u201cIt will not be wise decision to open a new front with current resources, especially when India has continuously been threatening Pakistan on its eastern borders,\u201d said Sehgal.
Sehgal, who is editor of Defense General, a leading defense journal in Pakistan, holds US responsible for exhaustion of Pakistani army resources.
\u201cThis is shameful that under the head of coalition support program, Pakistan army, which has been suffering from huge losses, and actually fighting a war, gets only 1 billion dollars, while a sum of 16 billion dollars have been earmarked for the so-called Afghan national army, which is doing nothing.\u201d
source: islamonline.net<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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