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Yousaf Raza gilani told the interior minister that he didn’t care too much about the drone attacks as long as they got the right people and that the government would complain about it in parliament and then ignore it. Prime Minister Gilani gets full marks for telling it like it is and for having the good sense to understand that by and large the drone attacks target terrorists who have proven by their deeds and actions to be no friends of the Pakistani people or state. What do you says about careless Pakistan interior minister? someone tell me
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On the record, Pakistan has persistently criticized the United States’ use of unmanned drones to attack militant hideouts in its mountainous border region. But diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks reveal that in private the Pakistani government was not unhappy about the strikes. In a cable sent in August 2008, the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan at the time, Anne Patterson, recounted a meeting with Interior Minister Rehman Malik and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani. It coincided with a military operation in one of the restive frontier territories. Patterson wrote, “Malik suggested we hold off alleged Predator attacks until after the Bajaur operation. The PM brushed aside Rehman’s remarks and said, ‘I don’t care if they do it as long as they get the right people. We’ll protest in the National Assembly and then ignore it.’ “
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