ISLAMABAD, May 30 (PTI): US military has already completed 'dry exercises' for launching a unilateral strike inside Pakistan if a terrorist attack in America in the future is traced to that country, a media report said today.
Also known as dry run, this trial exercise is a rehearsal of a military's combat skills without the use of live ammunition, influential Dawn newspaper said in a dispatch from Washington.
Quoting diplomatic sources, it said the trial run for a unilateral strike in Pakistan, however, did not involve US troops.
"Instead, it projected computer simulations of such an attack with an assessment of a possible counterattack and of the potential resistance US troops might face if they entered the Pakistani soil," the report said.
It quoted diplomatic sources as saying that the US had already informed Pakistan of its intention to conduct such an exercise before conducting the computer simulations.
