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Pakistan lawmakers to debate end to U.S. drone strikes
Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistan's parliament is expected this week to debate a committee's recommendation that the United States stop drone strikes inside its territory and apologize unconditionally for airstrikes last year that killed two dozen Pakistani soldiers.
"No entity in Pakistan -- in this current government, because I can only speak for this government -- has ever given any tacit agreement to the authorization of drone strikes," said Hina Rabbani Khar, the Pakistani foreign minister.
The Parliamentary Committee on National Security, a group of 18 members of parliament responsible for reviewing relations with the United States, made the recommendation in a report to lawmakers last week.
"No overt or covert operations inside Pakistan shall be tolerated," the report said.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/26/world/asia/pakistan-us-relations/
How many sovereignty violations and killings of civilians and suspected wrongdoers will be enough to stop the destructive drone strikes?
It certainly wouldn't be tolerated if a foreign power treated the US similarly?
