
Ummm, let me think about it. . . NO.
ISLAMABAD (AFP) — Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani urged the United States Monday to end its drone strikes in Pakistan and said Washington should share intelligence better to allow Islamabad to wage its own war on terror.
Speaking in Pakistan’s lower house, the National Assembly, after meeting U.S. House Speaker John Boehner in Islamabad, Gilani said: “I told him that you will have to respect our political and military efforts if you want to succeed” in combating insurgents.
Boehner was leading a six-member congressional delegation on a two-day visit and also met Pakistan army chief General Ashfaq Kayani and U.S. Ambassador Cameron Munter.
“I told him that the U.S. should transfer drone technology to Pakistan if it is really against militants,” Gilani said in a televised address to the house, without elaborating on what this might entail.
Later, a statement issued by the prime minister’s office quoted Gilani as saying that the U.S. should refrain from drone attacks and instead share credible intelligence to enable Pakistan to take action against terrorists itself.
