US drone attacks must stop - Pakistan

[Bosonic]

Source: AFP

PAKISTAN'S parliament has demanded an end to US drone strikes on its territory and called for an independent probe into the raid by US troops that killed Osama bin Laden to ensure there is no repeat.

The strongly worded message came after a joint sitting of parliament lasting more than 10 hours, during which MPs debated the "situation arising from unilateral US action in Abbottabad'' which targeted bin Laden.

Pakistan's intelligence chief Ahmad Shuja Pasha, chief of military operations and deputy chief of air staff, briefed the MPs in Islamabad.

Describing the continued drone strikes as "unacceptable'', parliament said in a resolution: "Such drone attacks must be stopped forthwith, failing which the government will be constrained to consider taking (the) necessary steps, including withdrawal of (the) transit facility allowed to NATO.''

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[JackRiddler]

1. The Pakistani military can effect this immediately if it's more than kabuki.

So the question is whether they're willing to continue allowing (helping, actually) the USG drone bombing of Pakistani territory in exchange for military aid and whatever other arrangements they may have with the USG.

[cosmicone]

2. If Pakistani military stopped funding, training and

arming the Taliban and Kashmiri and other terrorists, there would be no reason for the drones. The ball is in Pakistan's court.

Pakistan's entry into a circle of civilized nations is long overdue and Pakistan must stop using terror as state policy.