Pakistan may pull out of NATO Chicago summit over continued drone attacks

[Shah-i-Kot]

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Pakistan may pull out of NATO Chicago summit over continued drone attacks

Islamabad : Pakistan | May 03, 2012 at 7:29 AM PDT
By northsunm32













In spite of the fact that the Pakistani parliament has passed several motions demanding that drone attacks cease the U.S. has recently struck a target in the tribal territories. Pakistan has also made stopping the attacks a condition for reopening supply routes through Pakistan to Afghanistan. Yet the attacks continue.
Now it may be that Pakistan will protest by not attending a key NATO summit. About the recent attack the Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs said:. "Such attacks are in total contravention of international law and established norms of interstate relations," However Moazzam Khan a ministry spokesperson said that no decision had been made as to whether to attend the NATO conference on May 20-21 in Chicago. Pakistan had earlier stayed away from a conference in Bonn to protest the U.S. killing of 24 Pakistani troops in a border incident.
Recent talks in Pakistan to resolve issues between Pakistan and the U.S. have not been successful. The U.S. is holding up billions of dollars in aid owed to pay for Pakistani actions against terrorists. No payments have been made since 2010. This debt is used as leverage to force Pakistan to accede to U.S. demands. For more see this article. Yet a standoff remains between the two countries.

[Shah-i-Kot]

The religious parties, together, seem to have ensured that the NATO supply lines will not open.

Because of Pakistan's support, the NATO war/Karzai regime were propped up, and likewise, as these supply lines are closed, the reverse is also true.

Pakistan's support for NATO war/Karzai regime with supply lines has never been a popular decision, and hence, it is increasingly very difficult for any politician or general to reopen the supply lines as the atmosphere is not there.

This is then where this situation remains, and from here, it will probably extend to all other areas of cooperation.

The northern network has not been sufficient in supplying and pro-longing the US war, and hence, this is the reason, US officials, NATO officials, and Karzai himself for that matter (what a laugh) have repeatedly asked for the reopening of supply lines, giving various different stories for why it is vital, even saying that it impedes the withdrawal (it actually accelerates the withdrawal).