'Pakistan to return potential US attack'

Pakistan's intelligence chief says Islamabad will respond to any potential United States-waged military action against the country, responding to relevant threats by US officials. - Pakistan would not allow the situation to get to a 'point of no return,' should the US carry out an attack against the country, the Director General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Lieutenant General Ahmed Shuja Pasha, said on Thursday, Reuters reported.

"American attack on Pakistan in the name of (fighting) extremism is not acceptable," he said.

On Monday, the US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Washington had to consider military action against Pakistan in the event of, what he called, Islamabad's continued support for militant attacks against the US troops in Afghanistan. Graham said that the US lawmakers might support military options beyond the drone strikes, which the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been conducting against Pakistan for year.