Pakistani Troops Abandon Another Afghan Border Outpost After Militant Threats (way to go warriors)

fox news ^ | 1/17/2008 | ap

[tobyhill]

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistani troops abandoned an outpost near the border with Afghanistan after receiving threats from Islamic militants who a day earlier overran a nearby fort, an intelligence official and a resident said Thursday.

However, the army immediately denied the report that the post at Saklatoi in South Waziristan had been evacuated by dozens of troops.

On Wednesday, militants overran the nearby Sararogha Fort in a pitched nighttime battle that left seven of its garrison dead and a number of troops missing. The British-era fort is one of a string of positions held by the paramilitary Frontier Constabulary along Pakistan's porous border with Afghanistan.

[Paladin2]

The Paki NW areas certainly don’t seem to be part of Pakistan. We should treat them as autonomous.

[tobyhill]

Exactly. Musharraf can’t have it both ways then expect people in the US to think he’s doing all he can to fight terrorism.

[ANGGAPO]

Seems like it is about time for us to take out their nuclear capability. Mush is playing both sides against the middle.

[rlmorel]

Hey...are these running soldiers the same Pak soldiers that Musharraf said were superior and hardier than our military?

[tobyhill]

that be them. Musharraf will claim they’re in strategic retreat mode.

[rlmorel]

LOL...maybe they should have eaten their special bread first...:)