Pakistan plays down 'Terror Summit'

[dArKeR]

By Tahir Ikram

Islamabad - Pakistan's military on Monday played down a report in the latest edition of Time magazine describing what it called a "summit of terrorists" held in March in lawless tribal areas bordering Afghanistan.

While Pakistani officials acknowledge that remote tribal areas like South Waziristan, 400km southwest of Islamabad, have been visited by foreign and local al Qaeda-linked militants in recent months to coordinate operations, the military said there was no summit.

The government also says Shakai in South Waziristan was used as a training area for al-Qaeda until militants and tribal allies were forced out by the military in June.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw1092673622697B226