Ambassador: Pakistan Still Not Okay With Drone Strikes
'No Quiet Complicity' in US Killings, Insists Envoy
Addressing reporters today, Pakistani Ambassador to the United States Sherry Rehman reiterated her government’s opposition to US drone strikes against Pakistani territory as a “clear violation of our sovereignty and a violation of international law.”
Rehman went on to say that there “has been no quiet complicity” from the ruling Pakistani Peoples Party (PPP) about the attacks, disputing US claims that they assume Pakistan’s government just publicly complains about the strikes but gives its “tacit consent.”
Rehman’s comments are likely more directly at Pakistan than at the United States, with elections just months away and many opposition parties condemning the PPP for not doing something to stop the strikes, and a broad belief inside Pakistan that there is a secret deal to keep the attacks going.
Rehman went on to reiterate that her government believes that the strikes are fueling more resentment and radicalization than the benefits they are supposedly providing in killing thousands of tribesmen.
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MarketingFile
February 6th, 2013 at 4:01 am
I am all for non violent solutions … but the Pakistanis can't have it both way – Can't take financial aid from U.S. AND complain ….
masmanz
February 6th, 2013 at 7:52 pm
So financial aid is a license to kill??
MvGuy
February 6th, 2013 at 7:53 pm
WORSE THAN PROSTITUTES…….. They SELL their OWN children to the INFIDEL DRONE GOD OF DEATH…. What a crew…….. Lower than pondscum….. Wins worlds most corrupt country award!!!
I think Zadari may have colluded with you know who to get her killed and him elected…….. There seems no end to the venality there in that place………… IK !! The only hope 2B seen there in decades…
MvGuy
February 6th, 2013 at 7:59 pm
"Rehman went on to say that there “has been no quiet complicity” from the ruling Pakistani Peoples Party (PPP) about the attacks, disputing US claims that they assume Pakistan’s government just publicly complains about the strikes but gives its “tacit consent.”"
What a lying B-I-T-C-H !!!!!!!!!!!!!
MvGuy
February 6th, 2013 at 8:23 pm
I guess to a market guy, it's O.K. to kill KIDS if you send AID….