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Britain should help stop drone strikes: Wajid
Updated 4 hours ago
LONDON: Pakistan's High Commissioner to Britain Wajid Shamsul Hasan has warned Britain to help stop the American "Drone Wars" that are slaughtering hundreds of its innocent civilians or else the nuclear power "has the means" to retaliate unless the carnage ceases.
The Sun quoted Hasan as saying on Wednesday that his country's relations with America are at their lowest ebb.
He said: "Patience is definitely reaching exhaustion levels." He said Pakistan backed the war on terror waged by Britain and the US but he urged PM David Cameron to condemn US drone attacks on al-Qaeda and Taliban training camps in the north west of his country dubbing them as "war crimes" and "little more than state executions".
Wajid talked tough further when he told The Sun that Pakistan would side with Iran if "aggressive" Israel attacks it.
Pakistan claims the real drone death toll is more than 1,000. Wajid urged his own government to take a stand, clearly implying that the Pakistan Peoples Party government has been weak in standing up to the US.
"I think time is running out until the Pakistan government can take a stand. They will have to at some stage take punitive actions to stop them. They have got means to take such actions to defend their own frontier and territories. But that will inflame the situation and stop the War on Terror and that is not what we want."
Mr Hasan said: "We know the damage destroyed schools, communities, hospitals. They are civilians children, women, families. Our losses are enormous.
"Generally people think that deaths caused by drone attacks should be treated as war crimes.
"There is so much animosity that perhaps the Americans are the most hated people in the minds of the people in Pakistan."
Mr Hasan urged Britain to tell the US its drone strikes are counter-productive.
On Iran, Mr Hasan said: "We would not like Israel to attack any country, irrespective of whether it's Iran or any nuclear country. We wouldn't like to be seen as part of Israel's campaign against any country. If Israel attacks Iran, it will have an impact on Pakistan as well.
Britain should help stop drone strikes: Wajid
Updated 4 hours ago
LONDON: Pakistan's High Commissioner to Britain Wajid Shamsul Hasan has warned Britain to help stop the American "Drone Wars" that are slaughtering hundreds of its innocent civilians or else the nuclear power "has the means" to retaliate unless the carnage ceases.
The Sun quoted Hasan as saying on Wednesday that his country's relations with America are at their lowest ebb.
He said: "Patience is definitely reaching exhaustion levels." He said Pakistan backed the war on terror waged by Britain and the US but he urged PM David Cameron to condemn US drone attacks on al-Qaeda and Taliban training camps in the north west of his country dubbing them as "war crimes" and "little more than state executions".
Wajid talked tough further when he told The Sun that Pakistan would side with Iran if "aggressive" Israel attacks it.
Pakistan claims the real drone death toll is more than 1,000. Wajid urged his own government to take a stand, clearly implying that the Pakistan Peoples Party government has been weak in standing up to the US.
"I think time is running out until the Pakistan government can take a stand. They will have to at some stage take punitive actions to stop them. They have got means to take such actions to defend their own frontier and territories. But that will inflame the situation and stop the War on Terror and that is not what we want."
Mr Hasan said: "We know the damage destroyed schools, communities, hospitals. They are civilians children, women, families. Our losses are enormous.
"Generally people think that deaths caused by drone attacks should be treated as war crimes.
"There is so much animosity that perhaps the Americans are the most hated people in the minds of the people in Pakistan."
Mr Hasan urged Britain to tell the US its drone strikes are counter-productive.
On Iran, Mr Hasan said: "We would not like Israel to attack any country, irrespective of whether it's Iran or any nuclear country. We wouldn't like to be seen as part of Israel's campaign against any country. If Israel attacks Iran, it will have an impact on Pakistan as well.
Britain should help stop drone strikes: Wajid
