'Pakistan pulls another rug from under the US'

Pakistan pulls yet another rug out from under the U.S. A very good reason why there will be no attack on Iran is that the essential "Eastern Front" offensive that will have to accompany air attacks is doomed. As we have documented on the World News Desk, ISAF is beating a hasty retreat out of Afghanistan and there may not even be any U.S. military in Afghanistan by the end of summer. There certainly won't be enough to threaten Iran from its eastern border with Afghanistan.
 – MCR

'We won't provide airbases to US for attack on Iran'

As tensions mounted in the Persian Gulf, Pakistan on Friday assured Iran that it will not provide any assistance to American forces in the event of a US attack on Tehran.

Hindustan Times,
17 February, 2012

President Asif Ali Zardari held out the assurance during a trilateral summit here with his Iranian and Afghan counterparts Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hamid Karzai respectively, Geo News channel reported quoting its sources.

Zardari said Pakistan will not provide its airbases to the US to launch an attack on Iran, according to the report.

The president said Pakistan and Iran "needed each other and no foreign pressure could hinder their ties," the channel reported.

In a reference to the US pressure to abandon the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline, Zardari reportedly sent a message to the US "not to tell Pakistan who it can and cannot trade with."

President Asif Ali Zardari held out the assurance during a trilateral summit here with his Iranian and Afghan counterparts Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hamid Karzai respectively, Geo News channel reported quoting its sources.

Zardari said Pakistan will not provide its airbases to the US to launch an attack on Iran, according to the report.

The president said Pakistan and Iran "needed each other and no foreign pressure could hinder their ties," the channel reported.

In a reference to the US pressure to abandon theIran- Pakistan gas pipeline, Zardari reportedly sent a message to the US "not to tell Pakistan who it can and cannot trade with."

There was no official word on Zardari's reported comments.

However, a joint statement issued after the trilateral summit said the presidents of Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan had called for "non-interference and non-intervention" in their internal affairs.