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CNews RAWALPINDI: Pakistan rejecting reports of the US administration considering granting the CIA right to carry out US operations in its tribal region said it is not up to the US administration to make such decisions as the Pakistan government is responsible for security in the country.Talking to French news agency Chief military spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad said that there are no overt or covert US operations being carried out inside Pakistan. “Such reports are baseless and we reject them." Arshad also dismissed comments from US White House hopeful Hillary Clinton that she would propose a joint US-British team to oversee the security of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal if she was elected president. "We do not require anybody's assistance. We are fully capable of doing it on our own," he said.

NORTH WAZIRISTAN: With the martyrdom of ten more soldiers in a second attack on military convoy in N. Waziristan and killing of 20 miscreants in retaliation total 20 soldiers embraced martyrdom and 30 miscreants were killed in the gunbattles on Sunday. Ten soldiers were martyred and 12 others were injured in attack on military convoy in Masukhel in N. Waziristan, said ISPR Director General Major General Waheed Arshad. Twenty miscreants were killed in the army retaliated, he said, adding that the gunbattles between the security forces and militants was going on. Some 30 miscreants were killed and 15 others were wounded in the fighting in a mountainous area south of the town of Mir Ali, Arshad said after Security forces launched an attack against militant bases and hide-outs in the restive North Waziristan region bordering Afghanistan. "We got this information by intercepting the militants' own communications," the general said. The military also said in a statement that te...