Pakistan agrees to full list of demands

Pakistan agrees to full list of demands

Pakistan has agreed to the full list of US demands for a possible attack on Afghanistan's Taliban rulers who shelter suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden.

Pakistan's agreement was conveyed by President Pervez Musharraf in a meeting with US Ambassador Wendy Chamberlin.

This includes a US request to base a multinational force in Pakistan.

Pakistan has also agreed to the use of its airspace in a strike on Afghanistan by a multinational force, and to co-operate in intelligence gathering, according to a senior US official and sources in Pakistan.

They have also agreed to cut off fuel supplies to Afghanistan.

US Embassy officials are not available for comment.

"We have received the US demands but I am not authorised to give the details," said presidential spokesman, Rashid Qureshi.

Musharraf, a military leader who seized power in a bloodless coup in October 1999, met twice with his senior commanders since the terrorist attacks in the United States.

Pakistan's Cabinet and the National Security Council are due to meet to formulate a formal response to the United States, the sources said.

They say the United States is seeking a "comprehensive strike" to wipe out the Taliban and a network of suspected terrorist bases in Afghanistan.

Pakistan has told the Taliban that a massive US strike is in the making, Pakistani military sources said. They say that despite the warnings, the Taliban are unwilling to change their stance on bin Laden, whom they have sheltered since 1996.

Story filed: 08:24 Saturday 15th September 2001

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Pakistan ist offenbar bereit, auf alle Forderungen der USA für einen Angriff auf Afghanistan einzugehen. Wie am Samstag aus diplomatischen und Militärkreisen verlautete, gehört dazu auch die Stationierung einer multinationalen Streitmacht in Pakistan und eine Genehmigung für die Benutzung des Luftraums bei einem Angriff auf die Taliban und die in ihrem Land vermuteten Stützpunkte von Terroristen.

Wie es hieß, wurde die Entscheidung Pakistans am Freitag von Militärmachthaber Pervez Musharraf der amerikanischen Botschafterin Wendy Chamberlin übermittelt. Eine offizielle Bestätigung dafür gab es zunächst nicht. Das pakistanische Kabinett und der Sicherheitsrat des Landes wollten am Samstag wieder zusammenkommen. Wie es hieß, wollen die USA in einem "umfassenden Angriff" die Taliban und das Terroristennetzwerk vernichten.

Pakistan befindet sich in einer Zwickmühle: einerseits ist das Land der wichtigste Verbündete der USA in der Region. Zugleich unterstützt Pakistan aber auch die in Afghanistan herrschende Taliban-Miliz, die dem als Terrorist gesuchten Millionär Osama Bin Laden Unterschlupf gewährt hat. Wie aus pakistanischen Regierungskreisen

Zu den Unterstützungsleistungen gehören dem Vernehmen nach eine Überflugerlaubnis über pakistanisches Territorium, die Schließung der 2.510 Kilometer langen Grenze zu Afghanistan und die Einstellung der finanziellen Unterstützung terroristischer Gruppen. Staatschef Musharraf habe die "rückhaltlose Zusammenarbeit im Kampf gegen den Terrorismus" zugesichert, hieß es.

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Pakistan says yes to airspace, no to US troops
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- Pakistan Friday granted four requests for cooperation from the United States in its war against terrorism, but refused permission for American troops to launch ground operations from its territory, according to a Pakistani official involved in the negotiations.

"We're afraid of a backlash in our country," the official told United Press International on condition of anonymity.

U.S. ambassador to Pakistan Wendy Chamberlin, a former top CIA analyst on the region, met the country's military ruler General Pervaiz Musharraf on Friday for the second time in 24 hours.

The United States asked Pakistan for assistance in launching a global war against terrorism and in responding to Tuesday's terror attacks in New York and Washington.

According to diplomatic sources Thursday, U.S. officials asked Pakistan to allow overflights by American military jets in its airspace; to share vital intelligence; and to cut off fuel supplies to the Taliban regime in neighboring Afghanistan and close its thousands of miles of mountainous border with the country. The Pakistani official told UPI that his government had agreed to all these demands.

But Friday's report is the first indication that the United States had also requested use of Pakistani territory for staging a ground operation against Afghanistan.

The Pakistani official added that his government feared the presence of U.S. or international troops in the country would provoke a reaction from Islamic conservatives in Pakistan. The presence of troops on the ground would be too obvious, he said.

"We want to support the war (against terrorism) but we don't want it to be manifest," he said.

Osama bin Laden -- described by administration officials as a prime suspect in the hunt for the mastermind behind the attacks which are feared to have killed over 5,000 people -- is believed to be in Afghanistan, a guest of the Taliban regime there. Pakistan is one of only three countries that recognizes the Taliban.

The U.S. State Department says Pakistan funds the Taliban and Islamabad is thought to hold considerable influence in the country.