Pakistan slams 'ignorant' Obama attack warning

Pakistan slams 'ignorant' Obama attack warning
ISLAMABAD, Aug 2 (AFP) - Pakistan accused Democratic presidential
candidate Barack Obama of “sheer ignorance” on Thursday for threatening
to launch US military strikes against Al-Qaeda on Pakistani soil. “Such
statements are being made out of sheer ignorance,” Pakistan's Minister
of State for Information, Tariq Azeem, told AFP. “They are not fully
apprised about the ground realities and not aware of the efforts by
Pakistan.”“We have said before that we will not allow anyone to
infringe our sovereignty,” Azeem said. “If there is any actionable
intelligence they should tell us and only our forces will take action
on it and they are quite capable of it.” “This seems to be a reaction
to their own failure in Afghanistan to control the US casualties and
instead of addressing the situation there, they are finding scapegoats
and damaging their own cause,” Azeem added.