Pakistan Asks U.S. to Cease Drone Operations
- Posted on July 1, 2011 at 2:57pm by
Tiffany Gabbay
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Pakistani officials say they’ve again asked the U.S. to cease all drone operations at Pakistan’s Shamsi Airbase in
a remote part of the country.
The officials say it’s part of a larger request that the U.S. cease targeting militants in Pakistan’s tribal areas without notifying Islamabad in advance, first made much earlier this year, after the controversy when a CIA contractor killed two Pakistani men in Lahore in January.
London‘s Guardian newspaper quoted Pakistan’s defense minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar saying Wednesday that the Americans had to leave.
The most recent request was made to outgoing CIA director Leon Panetta on Thursday. That’s according to one of the two Pakistani officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe the high-level talks.
Panetta assumed his new post as Pentagon chief Friday.
A U.S. official would only say the base in the province of Baluchistan in southwest Pakistan is under discussion, as the two nations continue to work to rebuild and redefine their relationship that soured after the contractor dispute, then took a nosedive after the unilateral U.S. special operations raid that killed Osama bin Laden in May.
The Pakistanis say the U.S. had already responded earlier this year, by ceasing offensive drone operations from the base. But they still employ it for drones to land if weather prevents them from returning to neighboring Afghanistan, the officials said.
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TomFerrari
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 9:17amCost per drone?: $2,500,000.00.
Annual cost of permission to operate from Pakistan?: $3,250,000,000.00.
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Cost of Freedom?: PRICELESS
THE QUESTION IS, does the drone presence or road access through Pakistan do anything to increase our freedom?
I don’t personally have enough information to answer that. But, I haven’t been shown the value by the obama administration or by the media.
I DO stand by the PRICELESS value of FREEDOM.
What price WON’T I pay for freedom?
Report Post »I will NOT sacrifice MY LIBERTY or MY FREEDOM in order to “gain” FREEDOM.
I WILL SACRIFICE with MY TREASURE and/or with MY LIFE to be free and to secure freedom for posterity.
dontbotherme
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 3:00pmWe should take our money & all of our resources out.
Report Post »Gypsy123
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 6:39amWhy do we go in and protect these dumb countries let them fight it out themselves
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 12:51amIs it time to put up the “mission accomplished” banner yet?
Report Post »Lowbowma gets our informants busted (likely killed) after the osama raid and sends message to every informant/asset in the middle east “Your next (along with your wife and kids, parents, friends, everyone you know)”. Once more our allies are under purposeful attack for being our ally.. Thrown under the bus..