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Pakistan army dismisses reports of Europe plots
ISLAMABAD : Pakistan’s army on Wednesday dismissed as “very speculative” media reports that this month’s upsurge in U.S. drone strikes on Islamist militants in the country’s northwest sought to disrupt attacks on European cities.Sky News on Tuesday reported that militants based in Pakistan were planning simultaneous strikes in London akin to the 2008 militant assault on Mumbai as well as attacks on cities in France and Germany.
It said a month of strikes by pilotless drone aircraft focused on Pakistan’s North Waziristan region, in which more than 100 militants were killed, was intended to disrupt the plot.
Pakistani military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas told Reuters: “We don’t have any information or intelligence that militants had gathered there (in North Waziristan) and were plotting attacks. There is absolutely no intelligence on that.”
“Basically it’s very speculative,” he said of the Sky News report. “It’s a very speculative story. It does not quote any credible source.”
U.S. security officials said they could not confirm that a plot had been disrupted. But they said they believed that the threat of a plot or plots remained.
Courtesy www.aaj.tv