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The 2011 NATO attack in Pakistan (Template:Lang-ur; also known as the Salala Incident) occured when US-led NATO forces engaged Pakistani forces at a Pakistani checkpoint along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border on Saturday, November 26, 2011.[4] Two NATO helicopters[5][6] according to Pakistani sources entered as little as 200 meters [7] to up to 2.5 kilometers (1.6 miles)[8] at the Salala Pakistani border checkpoints in the Baizai subdivision of Mohmand Agency, FATA, from across the border in Afghanistan, where they opened fire at a border patrol checkpost killing up to 28 Pakistani soldiers,[4][8][9] and wounding 13 others.[8]

Afghan officials working in the border area where the attack took place claimed the day following the incident that a joint US–Afghan force was targeting Taliban forces in the area when it received fire from a Pakistan military outpost.[10] That is when the helicopters were called in for support.[11] The incident caused outrage in Pakistan, which termed the attack an "unprovoked and indiscriminate firing"[12], an "irresponsible act",Cite error: The opening <ref> tag is malformed or has a bad name (see the help page). and a "stark violation" of its sovereignty.[13] Pakistan also contradicted claims of any firing having taken place, saying that the soldiers who were manning the post were asleep or resting when NATO launched the assault.[8]

In a reprisal, the government of Pakistan ordered the closure of the NATO supply lines to Afghanistan.[4][8][9][14] In addition, Pakistani authorities also gave the United States an ultimatum of 15 days to vacate the Shamsi Airfield, which the U.S. reportedly uses for launching drone attacks. The commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), General John R. Allen, presented condolences to the family members and loved ones of the dead soldiers and ordered a "thorough investigation" into the matter.[15]

Background and timeline

Main article: War in Afghanistan (2001–present)

The incident

On November 26, 2011, at 2 AM local time (1:30 AM in Afghanistan), two NATO helicopters, according to Pakistani sources, flew from 200 meters to 2.5-kilometers across the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in the Salala area of the Baizai subdivision of the Mohmand tribal region in FATA, Pakistan. The helicopters opened fire at two Pakistani border checkposts about 300 meters apart on the Salala mountain top .[8][7]

The attack caused the deaths of up to 28 Pakistani soldiers,[9] which included two officers – Major Mujahid Hussain and Captain Usman Ali. Thirteen other soldiers were injured in the attack.[16][17][18] According to the initial statements issued by the Pakistan army, there were about 40 soldiers present at the two check posts when the raid took place, and most of them were sleeping or resting.[19][20][9]

Both sides reported they were attacked first. The poorly defined border, as well as a history of Taliban fighters moving around the border region were cited by the media as possible contributing factors to the incident.[9]

US-Afghan claims

According to Afghan and U.S. officials, the incident started after a US-Afghan ground force drew fire from positions within Pakistan during an operation against the Taliban in the Pakistani-Afghan border area.[8][21][10]

"There was firing coming from the position against Afghan army soldiers who requested support and this is what happened", said one Afghan official in Kabul.[10] The official said the government believed that the fire came from the Pakistani base — and not from insurgents operating nearby. That view was bolstered by one Western official who discussed the attack with military officials in Kabul the day after the incident. "They were fired on from a Pakistani army base", the Western official in Kabul said. "It was a defensive action."[10] Afghan officials say they then called in an airstrike against incoming fire.[22][10]

A US official in Kabul said Taliban insurgents may have been firing into Afghanistan near the Pakistani border outpost Saturday morning, which prompted coalition forces to strike back. He pointed to an incident in September 2010, when a NATO helicopter fired on a Pakistan outpost, killing two soldiers. "It was a situation where insurgent forces butted right up against a Pakistani border post and used that as a firing position. When we fired back, we hit Pakistani security forces. This is a possibility we're circulating here for Saturday's incident", the official said. Military officials in Kabul said insurgents in Pakistan have also used empty Pakistan border bases to stage attacks, which may have been the working assumption of the coalition forces who called in the airstrike."[10]

Pakistani claims

According to local officials, there was no militant activity along the Afghan border region when NATO conducted the attack.[23] In addition, Pakistan's accounts contradict NATO claims of having been fired upon first, saying the soldiers who were manning the posts were asleep or resting when NATO launched the assault in the night. Major General Athar Abbas, spokesperson of Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), said that for every post built along the border, the coordinates of the post were given to ISAF, same as the case with these two posts. Moreover he added that the attack lasted for almost two hours & the personnel on the posts alerted the GHQ which in turn immediately informed ISAF regional base in Afghanistan to stop the attack but they did not. GHQ in return gave permission to the personnel on the outposts to retaliate.[8] Pakistan termed the event an "unprovoked and indiscriminate firing",[9] an "irresponsible act",[24] and a "stark violation" of its sovereignty.[13] The attack was the deadliest NATO strike on Pakistani soil since the start of the war in Afghanistan.[25] Pakistan slammed NATO's version of events, calling them "lame excuses".[26]

Repercussions of the incident

Pakistan immediately closed all NATO supplies to Afghanistan in the aftermath of the attack,[14] [19][27][28] leaving the blockaded supply trucks vulnerable to attacks by Tehrik-i-Taliban militants.[29] Pakistan also ordered the U.S. to shut down and vacate Shamsi Airfield, from where the drone attacks in Pakistan are reportedly launched by U.S. forces, within a time frame of 15 days.[30][31] The incident caused a further deterioration in the already strained relations between Pakistan and the US.

Among the immediate repercussions of the incident is the fact that the United States' attempts to end the war in Afghanistan peacefully may now be in jeopardy. Some Pakistani officials warned that the attack will have "huge implications" for the Afghan endgame. Pakistan, which is seen as a key facilitator in bringing the United States to the negotiations table with the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani network, has already halted those efforts according to an unnamed Pakistani official close to the military establishment. The government has also put on hold its decision whether it would attend the Bonn Conference in December, which is an important international conference on Afghanistan.[32]

Reaction

Main article: Pakistan–United States relations

The already frayed relations between Pakistan and United States have fallen to a new low after the event with the Pakistani government and military establishment rethinking and reassessing its diplomatic, political, military and intelligence relationship with the United States.[33][23]

Reaction in Pakistan

Government and military

The Foreign Ministry of Pakistan promptly summoned U.S. ambassador Cameron Munter in Islamabad following the attack.[34] In an official phone call to the United States, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said: "Such attacks ... demonstrate complete disregard for international law and human life, and are in stark violation of Pakistani sovereignty."[35]

Retired Brigadier Mahmood Shah, former chief of security in the tribal areas, said that so far the U.S. has blamed Pakistan for all that is happening in Afghanistan and Pakistan's point of view has not been shown in the international media, so the matter should be taken up by the United Nations Security Council. He advised Pakistani authorities to shoot down NATO aircraft should a similar event take place in the future, and to keep the supply lines closed, on the argument that the U.S. cannot afford a war with Pakistan.[36][37][38][39][40] The Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), a media wing of the Pakistani military, released a statement calling the attack unprovoked and said that chief of army staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani had called the incident unacceptable and "directed that all necessary steps be under taken for an effective response to this irresponsible act".[41] One senior Pakistani military official said "the latest attack by NATO forces on our post will have serious repercussions as they, without any reasons, attacked on our post and killed soldiers asleep."[36]

Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik commented on the issue clarifying that the supply lines have not been suspended, rather been permanently shut down and the trucks would not be allowed to cross the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.[14]

The televised funeral ceremony of the soldiers who died was held in Peshawar and was attended by several high-level military and political figures, including the Chief of Army Staff. Afterwards, their bodies were dispatched to their native towns for burial. Family members of Major Mujahid Hussain and Captain Usman Ali said the soldiers "sacrificed their lives" for the country and that they were proud of those sacrifices. The Army Chief later also paid a visit to the injured soldiers, who had been transported to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Peshawar.[42]

On November 28 2011, Pakistani Prime Minister announced that there would be no more business with US and the relations between the two countries would never be the same again.[43] Later Director General of ISPR, Major General Athar Abbas, announced that NATO's apology was not accepted and this attack would lead to serious consequences.[44] He said that NATO’s regret over the attack was not enough and such incidents had happened in the past which killed 72 soldiers and injured more than 250 troops in three years.[44]

The next day, Pakistan’s ambassador to the UN, Hussain Haroon wrote to a letter to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to inform him of the situation and requested that the statement be forwarded to the 193-nation general assembly and the 15-nation security council (UNSC) as a document of UNSC.[45]

Opposition political parties

A PML (N) politician remarked that the government's incompetence had allowed the attack to be carried out.[46] Imran Khan, a popular opposition politician, former cricketer and a long time staunch critic of the government's foreign policy and its decision to join the American-led War on Terror, called the attack unpardonable[47] during a political rally in Multan, and said the Pakistani government had wasted $70 billion belonging to the Pakistani people, as well as the lives of 40,000 people, on fighting a counterproductive American war: "I know that the government will not do anything except issue some silly comments against brutality even after this attack. I do not issue comments, I believe in taking action."[48] An Awami National Party politician and senator called the incident a terrorist attack.[47] Awami Muslim League party leader Sheikh Rashid Ahmed supported a blockade of NATO supplies "to teach an unforgettable lesson to USA and NATO forces for violating Pakistani soil."[46] MQM chief Altaf Hussain condemned the attack and directed his party to observe a "Stability and Solidarity Day".[49] Many other leaders also called on the government to pull out of the Afghanistan war and disassociate itself from the U.S. alliance.[47] The JUI called the attack a shameful incident and "a slap across the face of Pakistani foreign policy" adopted by rulers who "always bow before their foreign masters."[50] Protesters affiliated with the right-wing Jamaat-ud-Dawa held a rally outside the Lahore Press Club where they urged the Pakistan Army to give a "befitting response" to NATO; the leader of the party said "We have to eliminate all stations and bases given to the CIA if we want to end terrorism in Pakistan".[51]

Public and media

The attack caused widespread outrage among the civilian population.[52] Headlines in newspapers portrayed the incident as an act of war.[53] Members of the public pressured the government to pull out from the War on Terror, permanently halt all NATO supplies, expel American citizens in Pakistan and plan a tit-for-tat military retaliation.[52][46] Some locals in the tribal agencies demanded those who carried out the attack to be handed over to Pakistan.[52] Hundreds of people organised a gathering outside the American consulate in Karachi to lodge a protest.[54] Various lawyers' associations throughout the country boycotted court proceedings and observed a strike on the day to condemn the operation.[49] Many university students also boycotted their classes to protest.[49] Pakistanis all over the country are demanding an end to the US alliance. Students in Peshawar blocked a main road where they chanted "Quit the war on terror" and anti-American slogans.[55]

Reaction by the US and NATO

The White House released a statement in which it said that senior American officials had expressed their condolences to Pakistan and that the officials expressed "our desire to work together to determine what took place, and our commitment to the U.S.-Pakistan partnership which advances our shared interests, including fighting terrorism in the region".[23][56] U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta spoke to their Pakistani counterparts to give their "deepest condolences" in a joint statement and also supported a NATO investigation.[57] The commander of the International Security Assistance Force is "personally paying the highest attention" to the matter.[58] The Obama administration pledged cooperation with Pakistan and ordered a full investigation and inquiry to be conducted into the attack.[57]

A NATO spokesman said that NATO "regrets the loss of life of any Pakistani servicemen".[34]

On 27 November 2011, NATO issued an apology for what it called a "tragic unintended incident".[8] In addition, NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen is reported to have written to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani commenting that "the deaths of Pakistani personnel are as unacceptable and deplorable as the deaths of Afghan and international personnel".[8] "We have a joint interest in the fight against cross-border terrorism and in ensuring that Afghanistan does not once again become a safe haven for terrorists," Rasmussen was quoted as saying.[53]

The US Chief of Army Staff, General Martin Dempsey said Pakistan's anger was justified as it had a reason to be furious given the loss of life. However, he stopped short of issuing an apology, saying he did not know enough about the incident and an inquiry was still being conducted.[59] A senior advisor to Afghan President Hamid Karzai warned that Pakistan and Afghanistan may be on a course toward military conflict.[60] Hamid Karzai is expected to contact the Pakistani Prime Minister and discuss the NATO strike.[61]

International reaction

By country

  •  China: The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs had a 40-minute conversation with the Pakistani foreign affairs minister[62] and released a statement afterwards in which it expressed China was "deeply shocked" over the attack and maintained that "Pakistan’s independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity should be respected."[63]
  •  Russia: The Russian foreign minister stated it is unacceptable to violate the sovereignty of a state, even when planning and carrying out counter-insurgent operations.[64]
  •  Turkey: The Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs Ahmet Davutoğlu telephoned Pakistan and called the attack "unprovoked and totally unacceptable". Davutoğlu assured that as a member of NATO, Turkey will ask for an impartial inquiry into the attacks. He further added that the loss of the Pakistani soldiers was "as painful as losing Turkish soldiers".[65]
  •  United Arab Emirates: Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Foreign Affairs minister of the United Arab Emirates arrived in Islamabad on an unannounced visit and requested President Asif Ali Zardari to reconsider and withdraw Pakistan's deadline set for the U.S. to vacate the Shamsi Airbase.[66] President Zardari is said to have rejected the request during the meeting, saying the decision was taken by the Defence Committee of the Cabinet and was in national interests.[67] The Shamsi Airbase is believed to be under the control of the UAE, who leased it in the 1990s for facilitating visits of wealthy Arabs whenever they used to visit Pakistan for falconry and hunting trips.[68] The U.A.E. is reportedly the party which allowed the U.S. to use the air base.[67]

Organisations

  •  United Nations: The office of the Security Council’s President, Ambassador Jose Filipe Moraes Cabral of Portugal, submitted Mr. Haroon’s letter for their information as well as the DCC statement, to be issued as a document of the UNSC. UN is still awaited for further comments.[45]
  •  Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC): The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu condemned the NATO attacks and gave his condolences to the relatives of the dead soldiers. Ihsanoglu said the attacks were a "serious violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty and are totally unacceptable" and expressed solidarity with Pakistan.[69]
  • The Tehrik-i-Taliban said NATO's attack on Pakistani check posts proved that the U.S. "can never be a friend of Pakistan" and said Pakistan should cut off ties with the country, in addition to taking revenge. A Taliban spokesperson maintained that no peace talks were being held with the government of Pakistan.[71]

Third parties

John Rees, a British political activist and co-founder of Stop the War Coalition, called the NATO attack an "extremely dangerous incursion" and remarked that the U.S. and its allies were creating instability in the nuclear-armed country, while Ahmed Qureshi, an Islamabad-based analyst, said during an interview with Russia Today that the prevailing public outrage may force the government, and the army in particular, to take some decisive measures against the United States.[72]

Australian analyst Brian Cloughley said the attack would have severe consequences: "This is quite outrageous and I have no doubt it signifies the end of the last lingering shreds of trust that the Pakistani army had for the U.S.". According to Coughley, the USAF had full knowledge of the locations of Pakistani border posts, and thus there was no excuse for this incident.[41]

An article from the Asia Times by M K Bhadrakumar explains that US should learn from its experience with Iran. It has no answer to a resolute nation in its will to put up against an enemy and Pakistan is going to give a "Persian response" this time if the intention was to sledgehammer its army. According to Bhadrakumar, Pakistan's calculated response following the attack stops short of directly terminating its participation in the war although in essence, this event may push Pakistan's army "within inches of doing that" in the long-term scenario.[73]

An article published in People's Daily, China's top state newspaper, accused the United States and NATO of flouting international law and fanning terrorism.[74] A former spokesperson for the US state department said China, which is a close ally of Pakistan, "sees this as a target of opportunity, both to tweak the US and to subtly suggest to Pakistan that if it really sours of its relationship with the US, it has an alternative".[62]

See also

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