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The following are from US senate document collections . Interesting what patriots is supreme court and its lower courts are nurturing in pakistan , and how come Zardari is free from all blames and allegations .
6. Evolution of Public Opinion
Beginning in 2012, Pakistani officials rarely based their criticism of U.S. drone strikes on the
incidence of civilian casualties and have instead pointed, quite reasonably, to another objection: the U.S. violation of Pakistan's national sovereignty. The Pakistani parliament voted in April 2012 to end any authorization for the program, a vote that the United States government has ignored.
This may be because despite their public protests, some senior Pakistani officials such as
President Asif Ali Zardari privately support the drone strikes. In a 2008 State Department cable that was made public by WikiLeaks,
Zardari signed off on the drone program in a discussion with US officials saying “Kill the seniors. Collateral damage worries you Americans. It does not worry me.”
Further confirmation of official Pakistani support for the strikes came in midApril 2013when Pakistan’s former president Pervez Musharraf acknowledged to CNN that his government had secretly signed off on U.S. drone strikes, the first public admission by a seniorPakistani official to such a deal.Musharraf claimed thatPakistan's government signed off on those strikes "only on a few occasions, when a target was absolutely isolated and no chance of collateral damage."
source : https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/04-23-13BergenTestimony.pdf
The following are from US senate document collections . Interesting what patriots is supreme court and its lower courts are nurturing in pakistan , and how come Zardari is free from all blames and allegations .
6. Evolution of Public Opinion
Beginning in 2012, Pakistani officials rarely based their criticism of U.S. drone strikes on the
incidence of civilian casualties and have instead pointed, quite reasonably, to another objection: the U.S. violation of Pakistan's national sovereignty. The Pakistani parliament voted in April 2012 to end any authorization for the program, a vote that the United States government has ignored.
This may be because despite their public protests, some senior Pakistani officials such as
President Asif Ali Zardari privately support the drone strikes. In a 2008 State Department cable that was made public by WikiLeaks,
Zardari signed off on the drone program in a discussion with US officials saying “Kill the seniors. Collateral damage worries you Americans. It does not worry me.”
Further confirmation of official Pakistani support for the strikes came in midApril 2013when Pakistan’s former president Pervez Musharraf acknowledged to CNN that his government had secretly signed off on U.S. drone strikes, the first public admission by a seniorPakistani official to such a deal.Musharraf claimed thatPakistan's government signed off on those strikes "only on a few occasions, when a target was absolutely isolated and no chance of collateral damage."
source : https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/04-23-13BergenTestimony.pdf
