US rebuffs call to wrap up its drone war

[The Northerner]

The message was conveyed by US Ambassador Cameron Munter in a meeting here on Thursday with Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, sources say, where the two discussed the revised terms of engagement with the US tabled before parliament earlier this week.

The 40-point report of the all-party Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS), presented in a joint sitting of the National Assembly and Senate, included calls for US and Nato forces in Afghanistan to pay charges for the transit of their supplies via Pakistan, an “unconditional” US apology for a deadly attack on Pakistani border posts in November and a halt to drone attacks in Pakistan’s tribal areas.

According to sources, the US envoy informed the foreign minister that even though Washington was willing to tender a formal apology over the Nato airstrikes that killed at least two dozen Pakistani soldiers in Mohmand Agency, he ruled out the possibility of revisiting US policy of relying on unmanned aerial vehicles to pursue its battle against al Qeada and Taliban in the tribal areas.

According to a statement issued by the foreign ministry, the US ambassador said that the US fully respected Pakistan’s parliamentary process and was looking forward to putting relations back on track on the basis of mutual respect.

The Obama administration considers the CIA-led drone campaign in the tribal areas of Pakistan as a vital tool to dismantle the ability of al Qaeda and its affiliates to target US interests.

Read more: http://tribune.com.pk/story/353906/revised-terms-of-engagement-us-rebuffs-call-to-wrap-up-its-drone-war/

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1. Obama admin is above the laws of man and god (depending on which god, I suppose) nt

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2. This is why RayGun should have been prosecuted. As well as Bush 1, Bush the lesser, and now Obama

is working to join the list of Presidents who have lead us to be a rogue state outside the rule of law.
But these same "people" expect the world to respect the "laws" that protect them.

Funny that

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3. We won't quit doing it, because we clearly don't think it's wrong

But you know what would happen should another country arrogate to itself the same authority and use it against the United States.