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Cold Shoulder: This is the closest Pakistan President Asif

Ali Zardari got to President Obama at the NATO Summit

in Chicago. It was at the end of a meeting with the Afghan

president, Hamid Karzia, May 21.

 

 

Zardari was Right: U.S. Should Apologize, End Drone Strikes and Go: The Nation, Pakistan

 

“Not only an apology and a halt to the use of drones must be forthcoming, but Islamabad must be reimbursed by the Coalition Support Fund. … U.S. and NATO forces should go home without waiting another moment. … Mr. Obama should pay heed to the protestors who want their U.S. sons and daughters home rather than fighting an unbeatable enemy far from their land.”

 

EDITORIAL

 

May 23, 2012 |

 

Pakistan - The Nation – Original Article (English)

Pakistanis set alight the flags of NATO and the United States in Multan, Pakistan. The level of anger toward the United States in the country has ranged between irritation to complete rage. At the moment, the scales are definitely tipped toward the complete rage range of the spectrum.

 

EXPRESS TRIBUNE VIDEO: The scene at the Salala checkpost after NATO's unprovoked attack, Nov. 27, 00:01:22RealVideo

President Asif Ali Zardari, who met President Barack Obama and addressed the NATO summit on Afghanistan in Chicago on Monday, took the right stand when he sought to press the strong opposition of his people and government to drone strikes in Pakistan.

 

He told the U.S. leader and summiteers that drones markedly boost militancy, which rather than losing steam is skyrocketing. He also stood firm on the legal argument against violating our sovereignty and reiterated demands that the United States apologize for the deaths of 24 Pakistani soldiers during NATO’s helicopter attack on a checkpost in Salala last November. The action so enraged the nation that the government was compelled to block NATO’s supply route through Pakistan for troops in Afghanistan.

 

The world must appreciate that while it is of critical importance to the U.S. and NATO that the land route to Afghanistan for troop operations and evacuation be reopened, the concerns of Pakistan on this matter cannot be dismissed out of hand. That is why not only an apology and a halt to the use of drones must be forthcoming, but Islamabad must be reimbursed by the Coalition Support Fund. These are monies that have been blocked by the United States.

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President Zardari also raised the devastating effect that the war on terror has had on our economy, which stands on the brink of collapse. The cost of the war far is estimated at $70 billion. For a developing country like Pakistan this is not small change. It is the responsibility of those fighting terrorism, particularly in Afghanistan, to accept Zardari’s demand that they provide greater access for our products on their markets so that our economy might be revived.

 

The setbacks that the greatest military might on earth has suffered should bring it to pack its things, lock, stock and barrel. Rather than finding covert ways of keeping its troops planted after the promised date of withdrawal at the end-2014, U.S. and NATO forces should go home without waiting another moment.

 

 

SEE ALSO ON THIS:

Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland: Less Nationalism, More Cooperation for E.U.

Die Zeit, Germany: Price of NATO Survival: Diminished Sovereignty

Frontier Post, Pakistan: American ‘Grandees’ Should Pay Pakistan and be Grateful

Gazeta Wyborcza, Polish: President Kwasniewski Admits He Allowed CIA Prisons

The Nation, Pakistan: Pakistanis will React Badly to Reopening NATO Routes

Le Monde, France: Pakistan and America: Preparing for a Timely ‘Divorce’

Frontier Post, Pakistan: Whistleblower Unravels America’s Afghan ‘Hoax’

The Nation, Pakistan: Apologies Won't 'Wash Away' NATO's Crimes in Pakistan
La Jornada, Mexico:
Senators and U.S. Drones: What Else are They Hiding?
The Nation, Pakistan: Downing American Drones: Iran Shows Pakistan the Way
The Nation, Pakistan: Time for Pakistan to Down America's 'Bionic Dragons'
The Nation, Pakistan:
Cost of Friendship with America is Far Too High
The Nation, Pakistan:
For NATO Supply to Resume, U.S. Must Admit to Guilt
The Daily Jang, Pakistan: Is Washington Behind Pakistan's 'Memogate'?
The Frontier Post, Pakistan: U.S. Withdrawal Plans 'Spell Doom' for Pakistan

 

 

Mr. Obama should pay heed to the protestors who want their U.S. sons and daughters home rather than fighting an unbeatable enemy far from their land. France, one of America’s key allies has elected a new president who announced that its troops would be home by the end of the year.

 

The United States must understand that there will be no peace in Afghanistan or the region unless the Afghans themselves agree to one. A foreign-imposed settlement would never work. Pakistan has always advocated an Afghan-led, Afghan-sponsored solution. Countries like Pakistan, Turkey and Iran can lend a hand in achieving this goal. Given the crucial stake these nations have in peace for Afghanistan and the region, their credibility is hard to question.

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[Posted by Worldmeets.US May 23, 2:59am]

 







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