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Showing Original Post only (View all)No Mr. President, Pakistan doesn't tacitly agree to your unilateral, terrorist drone attacks. [View all]
"Pakistans Foreign Ministry has bluntly rejected claims by the Obama administration that it tacitly approves CIA drone strikes on its territory, saying that drone attacks are illegal, counterproductive, in contravention of international law and a violation of Pakistani sovereignty.
The remarks came after the Wall Street Journal revealed that US claims of legality appear built on a monthly fax from the CIA to its ISI counterpart which goes unanswered, and on Pakistans apparent acceptance of no fly zones over the tribal areas which enable the drones to operate.
Islamabads foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar also waded into the fray, telling an audience in New York that What the drones are trying to achieve, we may not disagree
If theyre going for terrorists we do not disagree. But we have to find ways which are lawful, which are legal. The use of unilateral strikes on Pakistani territory is illegal."
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/09/28
Where does anybody get the idea that no response to a request is actually an affirmative response? The US is using duplicity and lies in order to conduct its War of Terror in Pakistan.
The funny thing is, if this were occurring under Bush, people would be screaming for his head, and for somebody to put a halt to this madness. But under Obama, hardly a word is spoken, and yet the death of innocents, the terrorizing of an entire province continues unabated. The hypocrisy would be stunning if it hadn't become so commonplace over the past three years.