Another round of demands for an immediate end to US drone strikes by Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was undercut by a sudden leak to the Washington Post of significant data on previous Pakistani governments’ secret endorsement of the policy.
The “top secret” CIA documents document CIA use of Pakistani air strips for past drone flights, and detailed repeated meetings with top officials from the Zardari government, including at a time when that government was openly condemning the attacks and demanding an end to them.
Sharif won his election this year on a platform of ending the strikes, and has grown more and more adamant about the need to end them in recent weeks, but the drones continue flying, and people continue dying.
The leaks further threaten the credibility of the Sharif government’s demands with the Pakistani public, amid growing anger at the attacks and speculation that Sharif might be playing the same game Zardari was.
Ultimately this puts all the more pressure on Sharif to do something to stop the strikes, as any good will his campaign to end them gave him in the wake of the election could rapidly dry up without results.
Agreements with PREVIOUS Pakistani Governments not withstanding OBAMA has a moral obligation to the WORLD to stop killing innocent civilians with his drone strikes.
Even one innocents death is ONE TOO MANY.
What would be the American Peoples reaction if a foreign government sent over a drone that killed Americans in America?
Recind all previous agreements! Make a formal demand on the floor of the UN with the proviso if they do not stop you will order the Airforce to shoot them down! No American will be killed as they are pilotless, it however will cost millions of dollars!
All this time Sharif was collecting money under the table from the CIA to kill his own country men. He must have known about the secret agreement to launch drone strikes.
pak military elite have been embedded with usintel forever, paid off
paks elite are corrupt to the core and IMF-WB loan ripping artists
but it is a fantasy for bushco and obombers to justify warcrimes against hapless civilians targeted by both the taliban and nato, as if to pretend they had consented to muder
Never Forget how the Paks helped pay for nine eleven: Are these Paks rogue players getting rid of someone they feared, or are they taking orders directly from WASHINGTON?? Don't forget it was the Pak ISI man Mohamet Ahmad that sent Atta the final $1OO,OOO.OO DAYS B4 he flew into the WTC. He then had breakfast on 911 with Bob Graham head of the senate intelligence committee and Poretr Goss head of the House intelligence committee Indy media has it here about the money being wired. http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/299286.s…. Scroll down to the bottom of the page there. Here is They also mention that afterwards,…….. Ahmad was given the job of governor of Punjab……..how could the bushes allow this conspitator to get a plum job unless he was doing the bushie's work??? ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO308C.html """""In late August 2001, barely a couple of weeks before 9/11, Senator Bob Graham, Representative Porter Goss and Senator Jon Kyl were in Islamabad for consultations. Meetings were held with President Musharraf and with Pakistan's military and intelligence brass including the head of Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) General Mahmoud Ahmad. An AFP report confirms that the US Congressional delegation also met the Afghan ambassador to Pakistan, Abdul Salam Zaeef. At this meeting, which was barely mentioned by the US media, "Zaeef assured the US delegation [on behalf of the Afghan government] that the Taliban would never allow bin Laden to use Afghanistan to launch attacks on the US or any other country." 1
Note the sequencing of these meetings. Bob Graham and Porter Goss were in Islamabad in late August 2001. The meetings with President Musharraf and the Afghan Ambassador were on the 27th of August, the mission was still in Islamabad on the 30th of August, General Mahmoud Ahmad arrived in Washington on an official visit of consultations barely a few days later (September 4th). During his visit to Washington, General Mahmoud met his counterpart CIA director George Tenet and high ranking officials of the Bush administration."""