Washington, July 9 : US can go after the terrorists operating from Pakistan’s tribal areas to check rising Taliban attacks against American troops in Afghanistan and to disrupt resurgent al-Qaida operatives’ efforts to map strikes against the US homeland.
The plan of American commandos carrying out “hot pursuit” raids inside Pakistan was revealed by three US lawmakers in separate interviews with the Houston Chronicle.
The lawmakers —Gene Green, Michael McCaul, and Henry Cuellar — told that the plans for stepped-up US military operations are in response to Pakistan’s failure to disrupt terrorist training camps and cross-border attacks from a region known as “the Federally Administered Tribal Areas,” a remote, mountainous border area.