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Nawaz buckled under US pressure: PTI
ISLAMABAD: Even though the prime minister termed his visit a success, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf insisted it was a failure vis-a-vis Pakistan’s stance on drone strikes.
In a statement, PTI’s Central Information Secretary Dr Shireen Mazari said, “Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif failed to categorically tell President Obama that drone strikes must stop.”
Instead, all the prime minister could muster before US President was to “urge” him to halt these illegal strikes.
She pointed out that the recent Amnesty International Report has pointed to the illegal nature of these strikes. Pakistan’s political parties had given a mandate to the federal government to stop drone strikes, she maintained.
However, neither the previous government nor the incumbent one have acted resolutely to stop these unlawful drone attacks despite their acknowledged illegality and their brazen violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty, the PTI leader lamented.
Mazari added, “Within the country, anti-drone voices have grown and now there is a political consensus against these attacks.”
Yet Nawaz buckled under pressure, she said. “Since Obama has refused to stop drone strikes in Fata, and since the Nawaz government has an APC mandate to stop drone strikes, what is the next step of the federal government?”
Published in The Express Tribune, October 25th, 2013.
Source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/622200/nawaz-buckled-under-us-pressure-pti/
ISLAMABAD: Even though the prime minister termed his visit a success, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf insisted it was a failure vis-a-vis Pakistan’s stance on drone strikes.
In a statement, PTI’s Central Information Secretary Dr Shireen Mazari said, “Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif failed to categorically tell President Obama that drone strikes must stop.”
Instead, all the prime minister could muster before US President was to “urge” him to halt these illegal strikes.
She pointed out that the recent Amnesty International Report has pointed to the illegal nature of these strikes. Pakistan’s political parties had given a mandate to the federal government to stop drone strikes, she maintained.
However, neither the previous government nor the incumbent one have acted resolutely to stop these unlawful drone attacks despite their acknowledged illegality and their brazen violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty, the PTI leader lamented.
Mazari added, “Within the country, anti-drone voices have grown and now there is a political consensus against these attacks.”
Yet Nawaz buckled under pressure, she said. “Since Obama has refused to stop drone strikes in Fata, and since the Nawaz government has an APC mandate to stop drone strikes, what is the next step of the federal government?”
Published in The Express Tribune, October 25th, 2013.
Source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/622200/nawaz-buckled-under-us-pressure-pti/