US Refuses Plea to End Drone Attacks in Pakistan

After Pakistan Bid to Curb Civilian Deaths, Washington Denies Deal

- Common Dreams staff, CommonDreams.org, April 13, 2012

Yesterday, the Pakistani government presented the US with a list of immediate demands, including a total end to CIA drone bombing and that “no overt or covert operations inside Pakistan shall be permitted”. The demand would have been in exchange for a reopening of NATO supply lines through the country.

Unmanned U.S. Predator drone flies over Kandahar Air Field, southern Afghanistan, on a moon-lit night. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

The same parliamentary resolution also demanded that the Obama administration apologize for the US airstrikes in November that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.

However, today US officials denied these requests, stating that Washington has no intentions to end CIA drone strikes against militant targets on Pakistani soil.
This is the second time the US has refused pleas from Pakistan to end such attacks, the first being in 2008.

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