Tag: Panetta
Operation to kill Osama was risky: Panetta
US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has said the daring operation to kill Osama bin Laden at his Abbottabad safe house in Pakistan was very...
Zero dark thirty a good movie: Panetta
The man who oversaw the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, ex-CIA director Leon Panetta, vouched Friday for "Zero Dark Thirty," calling it a...
Drones must roll in Pakistan, says Panetta
The United States will have to keep up an open-ended drone war against al Qaeda militants in Pakistan and elsewhere to prevent another terror...
Karzai to meet Panetta in US
Afghan President Hamid Karzai will pay an official visit to the US in January, the visiting US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said.
Afghan President accepted...
Petraeus was ‘right’ to resign: Panetta
David Petraeus was right to resign as director of the CIA over an affair because the position requires "personal integrity," Pentagon chief Leon Panetta...
Panetta blasts Karzai over troop deaths
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has voiced frustration with Afghan President Hamid Karzai preferring to “criticise” American troops, rather than acknowledging the sacrifices they...
Panetta says Karzai should thank, not criticize, allied forces in Afghanistan
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta lashed back at Afghan President Hamid Karzai Friday, saying the Afghan leader should say thank you now and then...
Panetta, Jordan king discuss ‘post-Assad’ Syria
US Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta and Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Thursday discussed the question of a political transition in “a post-Bashar al-Assad...
Pentagon chief urges more time over Iran standoff
Pentagon chief Leon Panetta on Wednesday reiterated US calls to “exhaust every effort” before considering military options for confronting Iran over its nuclear programme...
Iran, Syria on agenda in US defence chief’s Mideast tour
US defence chief Leon Panetta sets off on an international tour Monday that, after Tunis and Cairo, takes him to Israel and Jordan, in...
Leon Panetta rules out apology for Pakistan
Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has all but ruled out an apology over the NATO’s November airstrike – that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and strained...
Are drone attacks legal?
No
Classical wisdom amongst international lawyers is that no state can carry out attacks in another country against its wishes. However, the US Defence Secretary...
Panetta urges conditions for Pakistan aid
The United States should examine setting conditions for aid to Pakistan but not cutting it off, Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said on Wednesday, as...
No compromise
This is with reference to news on Panetta’s recent interview to FOX TV that US was at war with Pakistan in FATA. This statement...
Bearing down heavy on Pakistan
This is with reference to US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta’s statement that ‘US is running out of patience with Pakistan’. I am sure that...
No one should doubt Pakistan’s resolve to fight terror: FO
Islamabad has vehemently rejected recent assertions by US Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta regarding terrorist “safe havens” in Pakistan. “We feel that the (US)...
‘Extraordinarily dissatisfied with Pakistani action against Haqqanis’
Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen Martin E Dempsey joined Defence Secretary Leon E Panetta on Thursday in expressing unhappiness with...
