Thursday, July 11, 2013

Drone Strikes Was Done With Pakistan’s Permission: Shuja Pasha

Former DG Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Ahmed Shuja Pasha has said that drone strikes in Pakistan were done after getting permission from Pakistan. Shuja Pasha also admitted that drone strikes were somehow useful but it voiltes Pakistan’s sovereignty.
According to media reports in the recently leaked Abbottabad Commission report it was stated that Shuja Pasha said that there was no written agreement between US and Pakistan regarding drone strikes. However there was a political understanding between Pakistan and United States on drone issue.
“They were legal according to American law but illegal according to international law,” the report quoted the ISI chief as saying.
On many occasions Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan has said that drone attacks were carried out with the permission of the Pakistan government. Imran has said that the government conducts drone attacks through the US and then condemns the same.
This recent statement of Former DG ISI Ahmed Shuja Pasha tells that Pakistan’s previous governments have lied to people of Pakistan when they say that government have not given permission to US for drone strikes.

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