Pakistan condemns Bin Laden raid and US drone (terrorist) attacks

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Pakistan's parliament has called for a review of the country's relationship with the US over the American commando raid that killed Osama Bin Laden.

During a long joint session held to debate the US operation, MPs called for an independent investigation.

They unanimously passed a resolution urging a ban on Nato transit convoys unless the US ends drone attacks.

The session followed Friday's double suicide bombing that killed 80 people in north-western Pakistan.

At least 120 others were wounded in the attack on a Frontier Constabulary training centre in Shabqadar, Charsadda district.
Heightened security

The Pakistani Taliban said they carried out the attack - this year's deadliest on the security forces - to avenge Bin Laden's death.
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image of Aleem Maqbool Aleem Maqbool BBC News, Islamabad

None of the new resolutions adopted by Pakistan's parliament following the Bin Laden affair deals with the issue of the al-Qaeda leader's presence in this country.

Instead, most of the discussion in this special session centred on Pakistan's relationship with the United States.

There was strong condemnation in the resolutions that were adopted - of US operations in Pakistan and of what parliament called the "campaign to malign Pakistan".

Rather than any public criticism of the Pakistani security forces from the government, there was a resolution affirming full confidence in them.

MPs who attended the closed session though, said the head of the intelligence agencies, Gen Pasha, who made a rare appearance to explain himself, had a tough time from some quarters and offered his resignation - though the prime minister did not accept it.

The 2 May US raid on the al-Qaeda leader's Abbottabad hideout has left Washington-Islamabad relations at an all-time low, correspondents say.

Members of the US Congress have been calling for Washington to cut its billions of dollars in aid to Islamabad, saying some Pakistani officials must have known Bin Laden was hiding in the country.

On Saturday, the parliament in Islamabad said the American operation was a violation of Pakistan's sovereignty.

The MPs' resolution was passed after a joint session, under heightened security, lasting more than 10 hours.

"The people of Pakistan will no longer tolerate such actions and repeat of unilateral measures could have dire consequences for peace and security in the region and the world," the AFP news agency quoted the resolution as saying.
'Unacceptable'

An investigation should take place to "fix responsibility and recommend necessary measures to ensure that such an incident does not recur", it added.

The resolution also labelled as "unacceptable" the US use of pilotless planes to attack militants along the mountainous border with Afghanistan.

It said if the attacks did not stop, the government should consider stopping the transit of supplies through its territory for Nato forces in Afghanistan.

More than 100 drone strikes are estimated to have been carried out last year.
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Correspondents say Islamabad has tacitly approved of such US air strikes, although Pakistani leaders have always denied supporting them.

In recent months senior Pakistani security officials have reportedly been pressing for a limit to such operations, in the face of public anger over civilian casualties.

During the parliamentary session, Pakistan's army chiefs appeared before MPs to explain their actions over Bin Laden's death.

Lt Gen Ahmed Shujaa Pasha, head of Pakistan's security services, is reported to have told MPs that he had offered to quit after the US Navy Seals raid, but had been turned down by the army chief.

Information Minister Firdous Ashiq Awan said Lt Gen Pasha had told MPs he was ready to take responsibility for any criminal failing.

Pakistani leaders have insisted they had no idea Bin Laden was holed up in the country.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13398281

The US will also accuse the pakistani government of harbouring more and more terrorists and they will paint pakistan as a terrorism country in the coming weeks
 
The US will also accuse the pakistani government of harbouring more and more terrorists and they will paint pakistan as a terrorism country in the coming weeks
Seems that this is very likely to happen.
 
If you don't shut your dog up, someone else will do it for you.
 
No more like if your dog keeps coming into my house and killing my cats then I will shoot your dog.
Pakistan is nuclear right?

About the same as iraq. I am sure the US are pointing out all the nuclear bomb making facilities and how they could fall into the wrong hands.

Pakistan i would imagine actually does have nuclear bombs but who knows, everyone has nukes when the US wants war.

Nobody seems to mind them(US) having nukes and nobody seems to be concerned that they are the only nation to have ever used nuclear bombs. Perhaps they should nuke pakistan to avoid casualties?

As far as i know india and pakistan have nukes ready to fire at each other. Attack india as well. Then russia but not before you go after iran.
 
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Sorry but the US had every right to use them they were attacked by and aggressor, unprovoked.
What did Japan think would happen? I for one think they did the right thing, if not we might all have been living under Nazi rule.
The difference is Pakistan, run by militant Islamic lunatics will use them without thinking IMO.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction

They dont even know they have the worlds most wanted man right in or near a military compound and they want us to think their nukes are secure? :confused: :sick:
 
Well pakistan is harbouring terrorists i think it would be easier to nuke them.

So do it. Save lives and nuke them!!!!!

Use them without thinking? Sorry i think you are confusing the US with the rest of the world.

The difference is Pakistan, run by militant Islamic lunatics will use them without thinking IMO.

So the US are actually terrorists then because they have used nukes which makes them worse than the militant lunatics or it at least puts them on par don't ya think? You call people who have not even used nukes lunatics but defend the lunatics who actually dropped a couple :eek:
 
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Pakistan is nuclear right?

In more ways than one - 21st February 2011

Pakistan is on the verge of overtaking Britain as the world's fifth largest nuclear power at a time when the country faces an unprecedented threat from extremists.

American intelligence agencies believe that Pakistan now has more than 100 deployed nuclear weapons, an increase of nearly 40 per cent in two years.

It means that one of the countries considered the most unstable in the region is ahead of both Britain and, significantly arch-rival India, to own the fifth largest nuclear arsenal behind the United States, Russia, France and China.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...itain-worlds-fifth-largest-nuclear-power.html

At present, 189 countries are States Parties to the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons, more commonly known as the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty or NPT. These include the five Nuclear Weapons States (NWS) recognized by the NPT: the People's Republic of China, France, Russian Federation, the UK, and the United States.

Notable non-signatories to the NPT are Israel, Pakistan, and India (the latter two have since tested nuclear weapons, while Israel is considered by most to be an unacknowledged nuclear weapons state).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_proliferation#Nuclear_Non-Proliferation_Treaty
 
Well if the US invades pakistan and then pakistan nukes the americans that will be fine? Good to know.
If Pakistan is shown to be supporting a war against the US then the US have a right to attack them, by harbouring Osama they have shown their intentions and the Pakis should refrain from threatening the US ;)
 
If Pakistan is shown to be supporting a war against the US then the US have a right to attack them, by harbouring Osama they have shown their intentions and the Pakis should refrain from threatening the US ;)

By the same token the pakistani's have every right to hit back surely? You cannot call pakistan terrorists as they are a nation.

So it would be two nations fighting. Both armed with nukes. Interesting times ahead considering there are lunatics who have actually used nukes before in the action.
 
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By the same token the pakistani's have every right to hit back surely? You cannot call pakistan terrorists as they are a nation.
They were harbouring a known terrorist, the most wanted man in the world for mass murder on foreign soil :confused: And yes if they were harbouring which it seems they were, they are terrorists.
 
They were harbouring a known terrorist, the most wanted man in the world for mass murder on foreign soil :confused: And yes if they were harbouring which it seems they were, they are terrorists.

Ahhhh i see how it works. Pakistan are terrorists but the US can invade iraq for no good reason and are not considered terrorists. They are habouring bush who killed thousands of innocent iraq's.

Balanced world we live in.
 
Pakistan's parliament has called for a review of the country's relationship with the US over the American commando raid that killed Osama Bin Laden.
Do you think that those Pakis will go as far as turning down the generous aid they receive from the US and other western nations?
If they were truly honorable they would.

Do you think that this hatred for the US is racially motivated?
They are considered to be the great WHITE satan of the West.
 
Well if the US invades pakistan and then pakistan nukes the americans that will be fine? Good to know.

They don't have the range. And if they try, it will be the last thing any Pakistani gets to cheer about
 
They don't have the range. And if they try, it will be the last thing any Pakistani gets to cheer about

Even if they did have the range they would be shot down. I doubt hating the US is racially motivated, i think people are just sick and tired of the US dictating who are terrorists and who are not. Who decides whether the US are terrorists?

Good case would be syria and bahrain, the US threatens syria but does nothing regarding bahrain. Of course syria and not US friendly like bahrain. Once again the US is dictating the good from the bad and both sides are killing their own people yet bahrain escapes the US might while syria is threatened.
 
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