Pakistan PM urges top Obama aide to halt drone strikes

AFP
Thursday, 25th June, 2009

Pakistan’s prime minister Thursday told Washington’s visiting top security adviser that the United States must halt drone attacks on its soil, after they killed dozens of people in the northwest.

James Jones held talks with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani as part of a short regional tour that has already taken in neighbouring Afghanistan to assess the United States’ new strategy in the region.

The Barack Obama administration has put Pakistan at the heart of a strategy to tackle Al-Qaeda and other extremists who Washington says are huddled along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border plotting attacks on Western targets.

Gilani “called for stopping the drone attacks in order to ensure success of Pakistan?s strategy for isolating the militants from the tribes,” a statement issued from his office said.

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10 Responses to “Pakistan PM urges top Obama aide to halt drone strikes”

1. Artyom Says:
   June 25th, 2009 at 10:14 am

   HA! Like that will happen! Since when did they ever respect them in the first place? This is like the 15th time they requested the end of drone bombings.

   

   hut Reply:
   June 25th, 2009 at 11:11 am

   Agreed, its like they are being ignored even though its thier own territory.

   

   Peace Be Upon the World Reply:
   June 26th, 2009 at 5:31 pm

   Hey Website guys who post these articles!!!!!!!! There are other ways to post afp, reuters, etc.
   Why do you keep posting articles linked to GOOGLE? If we go to the original article then Google
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2. mark piestrak Says:
   June 25th, 2009 at 11:27 am

   As loon as I can keep attending church every week I could care less about some poor people dying in the sand, keeps my oil and rent prices down… WWJD

3. sillycat Says:
   June 25th, 2009 at 12:02 pm

   we gonna fuck pakistan up. Those terrorists deserve it

   

   JF Reply:
   June 26th, 2009 at 7:54 am

   There are millions of civilians present there too. Not all the people are terrorists, you fool.

4. Truthteller Says:
   June 25th, 2009 at 3:18 pm

   pak alert, hey US your killing too many terrorists, errr oops our people. we need them to attack India.

5. Joe in JT Says:
   June 25th, 2009 at 4:42 pm

   You can see how high tech standoff weapondry can get way out of hand, quickly. It’s so easy for some teenager behind a joystick and a computer screen in North Las Vegas to launch a deadly hellfire missile in Pakistan and not understand the consiquences of mass death. Imagine killing almost 100 mourners at a funeral consisting of mostly woman and children!

   Launching a deadly bomb on innocent people will “infuriate” the Arab world enough to motivate a few micro-biologist over there and then they will mix a deadly cocktail of viruses and spread it in a New York subway. This type of attack on funeral mourners will be consisdered “the straw that broke the camels back” and revenge will be coming on America.

6. ol granny Says:
   June 25th, 2009 at 11:28 pm

   Yea, but the military needs a good practice grounds for live targets! Coming to your neighborhood soon!

7. Wez the Aussie Says:
   June 26th, 2009 at 11:56 pm

   This is diabolical.