According to officials familiar with the conversation, CIA Director Leon Panetta rejected demands from Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence head Lt. Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha to end drone strikes against his nation and scale back operations beyond those coordinated with the ISI itself.
The officials said the multi-hour talks ended with Panetta insisting the drone strikes were part of his “fundamental responsibility” and that they would continue. He also apparently rejected the other calls, insisting the US government would do whatever it thinks is in its interest in the region.
Despite rejecting every single demand of Pasha, CIA spokesmen insisted that the talk was “productive” and proved the two spy agencies have a “solid partnership.” It is a partnership involving considerable hostility, however.
Pakistan has been taking a renewed look at CIA operations after Raymond Davis, a consulate employee charged with murder, turned out to be a CIA operative. Officials have since said they believe hundreds of CIA agents are operating in Pakistan above and beyond the ones working directly with the nation’s government.
Don't just "take a look". Do something.
Pakistan needs to adopt Isreals attitude to the USA i.e we will take your money BUT we will do our own thing and protect our own interests NOT yours..
If she really objected to the drone strikes, it would be easy for Pakistan to shoot them down.
Amazing how Panetta is just begging for retaliation against the US. How is retaliation likely to be delivered? By a "terrorist" attack, of course, in which civilians like those we've been slaughtering in P will be killed.
No question about it: Rice and Obama don't mind killing darkies to keep the lily-white American elite happy. What a disgusting country.
This is not hard to fix. Pakistan has demanded an end to CIA drones. From now on, shoot them down without further warning. Granted, they are small and not easy to find but, during WW2, the British RAF went out and brought down German V2 buzz bombs by sheer persistence.
If the drones can't be picked up on radar, Pakistan will just have to have old-fashioned ground spotters in the mountains with radios. If a drone is seen, the spotter can either shoot it down with shoulder-launched Stinger missile or a fighter can be scrambled to locate and shoot it down.
When the Pakistanis announce an "evolving security relationship" with China, Panetta will curse the day he first saw or heard of drones.
Sex with consent is love,while other wise rape, drone strikes with consent are of mutual benifet, while other wise help terror.m
The drones are too difucult to be taken down by anything Pakistan has. The command & control centers must be taken out & that would involve either ground or air strikes. U.S. AWACS would pick up any chatter of incoming impending air or ground strikes by Pakistani forces. Remember the retaliation taken out on civilians that cooperated with local insurgents in taking out the c.i.a. base?