US rules out ground attack in NW

US rules out ground attack in NW
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Summary US assures Pakistan that Washington has no plan of cross border raids in Pakistans tribal belt.

A senior US official said that Washington would not send ground troops into Pakistan to attack militant positions in North Waziristan.There will be no boots on the ground, the official said. That has been communicated to Pakistan.Pakistan and the United States have engaged in a diplomatic fusillade over the last week after outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen said Haqqani network was a veritable arm of the Pakistani spy agency ISI.
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