US doesn't have permission for drone strikes: Yuosuf Raza Gilani, Pakistani Prime Minister
source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/US-doesnt-have-permission-for-drone-strike...
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"There is no such permission," the Associated Press of Pakistan quoted Gilani as telling a group of Pakistani expatriates Saturday.
According to reports, at least 55-60 drone strikes have taken place in Pakistan in 2011. Over 460 people, most of them believed to be militants, have been killed in the strikes.
The prime minister is in Australia for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) that is being attended by over 50 world leaders.
Gilani said the drone strikes were counter-productive because of the collateral damage caused. They were undermining the Pakistani government's efforts to get unanimous support of the masses against terrorists.
He said the drone strikes were one of the reasons of tense relations between Pakistan and the US.
Pakistan has also conveyed to America that unilateral military operations, such as the one in May that led to the killing of al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden, would not be acceptable, he said.
"Unlike the policies of the past when things started rolling with a single telephone call from the US, now we seek mandate of the parliament and take decisions with consensus," he said.
Gilani said there has been a sea change in the country's foreign policy towards terrorism.
"There has been a paradigm shift in the policy between a democratic government and a dictatorial regime," he said, referring to the army rule of Pervez Musharraf.
The people of Pakistan and the parliament were now the "ultimate" arbitrators to take decisions of national importance, he said.
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vaxart
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If only Pak will realize they are perpetrating violence, on self and others, by sending terrorists everywhere......
- 7 months ago
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vaxart
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cabinettags
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I don't claim to know a lot about Pakistan, but it doesn't take a mental heavyweight to observe they'll not get unanimous support from their populous on anything. The people they claim they're pursuing are also part of their population. They have radical muslims that go around blowing up their fellow countrymen. Osama Ben Laden was taking shelter in their country. If they dislike our coming to get him, then why didn't they do it themselves? They are, supposedly, our allies. They've been vital in supplying our efforts in Afgan at the same time they harbor the people we're fighting. Seems to me they're playing both ends towards the middle.
The conflict in Afgan reminds me of Viet Nam. The lesson we supposedly learned in Nam is that if you grant the enemy a safe haven to lick his wounds, then the war goes on until they decide to quit. I've not seen the other wide quit yet, in any conflict. We need to get our troops out of Afgan and let these wacco's have at each other. We got the mastermind, let's call it good.
- 7 months ago
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cabinettags
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Anonmaly
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The damage done won't be so simply healed...
What the politicians/war profiteers aren't seeming to get (or they are and are to rich to care), is that these people will end up hating or at least strongly disliking us for a long time...
Pakistan in particular is already real unstable, news-flash, they also have nukes....
And who's to say who will come out on top of their inner turmoil, and honestly it's not our place to intervene, if they needed food some kind of humanitarian aid that would be one thing.... But look at Egypt, Obama started of supporting the existing government and then realized it was hopeless and started supporting the protesters...
But no we're just going to launch missiles from drones going after a fabricated bogey-man, in a country that is on the verge of a civil war as it is....
These fuckers in charge are god-damned nuts.... Need serious psychiatric therapy... There going to get us all killed, or in a war forever, and they don't give a fuck..... I don't want their grandchildren hating my grandchildren not cool....
- 7 months ago
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Anonmaly
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Anonmaly
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I know what would happen if a foreign drone struck a target near my backyard... There seems to be a consensus among many Americans about that one (or at least if it were near to them)...
How are other countries supposed to feel when the majority of drone strikes are harming innocent, civilian people?
- 7 months ago
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Anonmaly
