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PAL-C Condemns U.S. Strike on Pakistani Soil
Demands U.S. Respect Pakistani Sovereignty; Urges greater military-to-military coordination, intelligence sharing
Washington D.C., June 12, 2008 - The Pakistani American Leadership Center (PAL-C) condemns the recent U.S. strike on Pakistani soil that resulted in the deaths of 11 Pakistani paramilitary soldiers.
Voicing the outrage of the Pakistani American community over the incident, PAL-C Executive Director Taha Gaya said, "The lack of communication and coordination between U.S. and Pakistani forces that resulted in U.S. Air Force B-1 Bombers and F-15s bombing allied Pakistani troops within Pakistan amounts to an unacceptable breach of Pakistan’s territorial sovereignty.
Unilateral U.S. strikes resulting in this type of collateral damage undermine the effort to combat terrorism and lead to sharp increases in anti-American sentiment. It is imperative to the success of the U.S. mission in the region that it closely coordinate with the Pakistani military and democratically elected civilian government of Pakistan."
Prominent Pakistani American businessman and PAL-C National Director Mossadaq Chughtai noted, "By angering the entire nation of 165 million Pakistanis, this strike achieved exactly the opposite intended effect of other U.S. programs designed to win the hearts and minds of the Pakistani people such as the five-year $ 750 million FATA development plan.
That Pakistan has lost over 1,000 of its own soldiers and continues to be a key ally of the U.S. in the War on Terror makes this incident especially appalling and insulting to the Pakistani people."
PAL-C urges its members and the Pakistani American community to contact their representatives in Congress and the Administration to voice their concern over this incident and to demand that the necessary procedural safeguards are put in place to ensure that these types of incidents do not occur in the future.
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