Map locating Pakistan's restive tribal zone. Pakistan and the USA have been drawn into a dispute over the right military strategy to hunt down Al-Qaeda, seven years after the September 11 attacks stunned the world. (AFP/Graphic/Martin Megino/Gal/Js)Bush 'Approved' Pakistan Attacks -- BBC News
President George W Bush has authorised US military raids against militants inside Pakistan without prior approval from Islamabad, the BBC has learned.
An unnamed senior Pentagon official told the BBC the classified order had been made within the past two months.
On Wednesday, the US's top military commander said the US was shifting its strategy in Afghanistan to include raids across the border into Pakistan.
Pakistan has said it will not allow foreign forces onto its territory.
Meanwhile, security officials in Pakistan say they have killed up to 100 militants on the Afghan border. There is no confirmation.
The US say that Pakistan's north-west tribal areas are being used as "safe havens" by militants preparing attacks on Afghanistan.
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More News On Pakistan
Pakistan kills up to 100 militants near Afghan border -- Reuters
Taliban attack mosque kills 25 in Pakistan -- Long War Journal
Pakistan mosque attack kills 25 -- CNN
Taliban, al-Qaida gaining ground in war on terror -- McClatchy Newspapers
Officials: Bush secretly OK'd raids in Pakistan -- Yahoo News/AP
Karzai backs U.S. on Pakistan -- Yahoo News/Reuters
Bush allows raids into Pakistan: report -- Yahoo News/AFP
Pakistan, US clash over hunt for Al-Qaeda -- Yahoo News/AFP
Pakistan premier backs army chief's rebuke to US -- Yahoo News/AP
Pakistan orders end to foreign incursions -- CNN
Pakistan, US clash over hunt for Al-Qaeda -- AFP
Will Pakistan become a quagmire for the United States? -- Reuters
My Comment: More people are dying daily from terrorism and armed attacks in Pakistan than in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
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