Pakistan says U.S. not listening: drone strikes must stop

[The Northerner]

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan has spelt out in no uncertain terms that U.S. drone aircraft strikes against militants inside its territory must stop, but Washington is not listening, the country's foreign minister said.

"On drones, the language is clear: a clear cessation of drone strikes," Hina Rabbani Khar said.

"I maintain the position that we'd told them categorically before. But they did not listen. I hope their listening will improve," she told Reuters in an interview late on Wednesday.

The attacks by the unmanned aircraft from Afghanistan, which U.S. officials say are highly effective against militants, fuel anti-American sentiment in Pakistan because they are seen as violations of sovereignty that inflict civilian casualties.

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So, how many more innocent civilians must die, how many more families and friends must grieve, how much more money must be wasted, and how much more blowback must result before the drones strikes cease completely?

Is all of that worth accepting or ignoring in the name of "security"?

[Meiko]

1. A sovereign nation

is telling us to STOP using drones inside their borders and we just ignore them. The whole thing is outrageous.

[piratefish08]

2. you have a problem with our democracy drones? how very un-american of you.

[Meiko]

3. How could I

have been so blind.

[RC]

4. How else to keep the War on Terror going if we stop making terrorists?

Without US making new terrorists all the time, eventually the War on Terror would wind down and Peace would break out. Then what would we do with all of our high tech war toys? Store them in the desert somewhere? All those billions wasted by not killing families eating dinner or sleeping in their homes.