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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
No objection to dialogue with Taliban: Kayani
LAHORE: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Tuesday said that Pakistan Army had no objection over the government having dialogues with Taliban, a private TV channel reported. Briefing the parliamentary defence committees at General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, Kayani said that he had no intention to send troops to North Waziristan prior to the government orders. Kayani further said that he had informed the US that Pakistan did not require any military aid of any kind and that there would be no compromise on national sovereignty in bilateral ties of the two countries. He mentioned that the defence budget was decreasing every year due to inflation and the army had received only $ 0.2 billion of agreed $ 6 billion from the US. Earlier, a security briefing was given to Senate and National Assembly Standing Committees on Defence and Defence Production at General Headquarters on Tuesday. daily times monitor
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