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Drone strikes to continue. Keeping in view the American track record I was expecting one after a few hours of the parliamentary committee’s resolution.
Drone strikes to continue on Pakistani soil: US officials - geo.tv
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Hay jurm e Zaeefi ki saza marg e mafajat
ہے جرم ضعیفی کی سزا مرگ ا مفاجات
By the way topic is serious ,
I am sorry but
Main viewrs ko is say mahroom naheen rakh sakta , If it is true
Bravo Veena Malik
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Another dirty politician .
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^ let her first come to Pakistan, then she can support any party she wants. BY the way she is not that important to be discussed in each thread.
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Good! let see if Parliament can get it implemented!!!
and Now US is considering to Apologize on Salala Raid!!! not a bad beginning
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shows the interest of parliamentarians in the issue.Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan
94 percent lawmakers stay away from debate on PCNS
ISLAMABAD: The joint parliamentary session – from March 20 to April 12 – saw only one-fourth of the session time being spent on debating the Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS) recommendations to review relations with the US. Ninety-four percent of the parliamentarians stayed away from the crucial debate with only 28 (6 percent) of 445 legislators in the National Assembly and Senate debating the PCNS recommendations for 338 minutes. This constituted 25 percent of the total session time of 22 hours and 22 minutes. Only 4 percent of the members of the National Assembly (MNA) in 341-strong Lower House; and only 13 percent of senators in the 104-strong Upper House spoke on the PCNS recommendations. The PCNS was formed in the wake of a NATO attack on Salala Border Checkpost that killed 24 Pakistan troops in November last year. Spread over nine sittings, the longest joint parliamentary session in Pakistan’s history unanimously approved new recommendations on ties with the US and the country’s foreign policy. However, the debate showed that the parliamentarians were reluctant to share their views on ‘retuning’ ties, which included restoration of NATO supplies to the troops stationed in Afghanistan, a call for an end to drone attacks in Pakistani territory and an unconditional apology for US air strikes in Salala. With only one-fourth of the session time being consumed for actually discussing the PCNS recommendations, the rest of the time was taken up to discuss target killings in Karachi and Balochistan, sectarian violence in Gilgit-Baltistan, recent fuel price hike, power outages and a string of other issues. The PCNS recommendations were completely ignored in three sittings. In the eighth sitting, it was discussed for only 15 minutes by a Pakistan People’s Party legislator. The opposition parties – the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) – rejected the first draft of the recommendations. The members of the two parties distanced themselves from the debate. Only three PML-N senators and two MNAs took part in the debate. The party has 104 legislators in both Houses. One parliamentarian each from the Awami National Party (ANP), the JUI-F, the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) and the Pakistan Muslim League- Functional (PML-F) took part in the debate. Similarly, 32 Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) legislators in the two Houses and 12 independent members in the Senate stayed away from the debate. The JUI-F had pulled out from the PCNS, saying that the government had decided to resume NATO supplies. However, JUI-F chief Fazlur Rehman had ended boycott of the PCNS after meeting President Asif Zardari on Wednesday. staff report
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US has no intention of ending drone strikes, officials say | Fox News
Some more information with regards to the drone issue:
Still, neither side is budging on the drone issue, both U.S. and Pakistani officials say.
“The U.S. will continue to assume that protecting U.S. and Pakistani common interests, especially on counterterrorism matters, is valued by Islamabad,” a U.S. official said.
**In the meantime, the White House has raised the bar on whom the CIA is allowed to target, applying new limits and all but curtailing so-called “signature strikes” where CIA targeters deemed certain groups and behavior as clearly indicative of militant activity.
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**The White House also explored whether giving Pakistan advance notice of the strikes could become the basis of a compromise to keep the operation going.
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In exploratory counteroffers, Pakistani officials have suggested the U.S. “transfer ownership” of the drones to the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence, flagging them as Pakistani aircraft, taking off from Pakistani air bases, two Pakistani officials say. The Pakistanis argue their public would react with less venom to errant strikes that hit Pakistani civilian targets than they do when such strikes are carried out by a foreign force. They point out the drone transmissions have to travel via U.S.-controlled satellites, giving U.S. officials a failsafe to terminate the Pakistani strikes at any time.
An alternate proposal put forward is that the U.S. better arm Pakistan’s F-16 fleet, enabling the Pakistan air force to attack the targets. While Pakistani officials insist the jets have proven successful in the past, U.S. officials claim their shots flew wide of the mark, allowing some of the militant targets to escape.
There is little chance of that, with the mountain of evidence the U.S. has built up showing the Pakistani intelligence service’s support of Afghan militants. A secret NATO report published in January obtained by The Associated Press, concluded that “the government of Pakistan remains intimately involved with the Taliban.” Derived from interviews with captured Afghan militants, the report says "in meetings with Taliban leaders, ISI personnel are openly hostile to ISAF (the U.S. coalition, with ISI officers touting the need for “continued jihad and expulsion of `foreign invaders’ from Afghanistan.”
Read more: US has no intention of ending drone strikes, officials say | Fox News
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Dunya News: Pakistan:-US respects but resists some PCNS recommendations…
Talking to Dunya News on Thursday, Cameron Munter disclosed the secret of convincing Maulana Fazalur Rehman and Nawaz Sharif about PCNS recommendations.
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“What magic did you play on Maulana Fazlur Rehman and leaders of other political parties to persuade them to evolve consensus on parliament’s recommendation, asked the reporter of Dunya News.****Cameron avoided answering the question, saying meaning of his name in the Urdu language was “Jantar Mantar” (Magician).
The US envoy said that it would be premature to say anything about halt in US drone attacks on Pakistani soil. Answering a question, Munter said that the US was not using any Pakistani airbase.
The US ambassador also gave a vague answer to a question about how many US intelligence officials were operating in Pakistan.
He said US might not agree to all the recommendations proposed by Pakistan’s Parliamentary Committee on National Security however it will negotiate after the final decision on the recommendations.
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Responding to a query, Munter said he wants to know about the agreements which would be suspended after the final approval of the recommendations.
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He said US expressed its regret several times over the Salala incident. It was not a deliberate act but just an accident, the US envoy said.
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Stressing the need for mending fences before it was too late, Munter said US was ready to hammer out all the bones of contention including drone attacks.
Expressing his grief on Siachen tragedy, he said US would always stand by Pakistan in the hour of need.“US offered Pakistan help in the search & rescue operation, which it welcomed as a token of goodwill, other nations have also stepped forward in this regard”, Munter said.
Responding to another question regarding PK-Iran gas pipeline, Cameron Munter said that Pakistan is a sovereign country and it is free to take decisions to meet its demand in energy sector.