ISLAMABAD – After Thursday’s drone attack in North Waziristan in which more than 40 tribal elders and citizens were killed, the Pakistan Army is seriously mulling revising the extent of its strategic cooperation with the United States.
Sources told Online that Chief of Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Kayani was furious over Thursday’s attack, adding that he left a meeting of the Army Promotion Board and after taking all corps commanders into confidence, decided to give a strong reaction and dictated his statement to ISPR DG Maj Gen Athar Abbas.
They said that after the drone attack the military leadership was seriously revising the extent of its cooperation with the US in the war against terrorism and it was expected that the decision to stop logistic support to the US would be finalised in a couple of days. The sources said under the current circumstances, Pakistan would not participate in the trilateral Afghanistan-Pakistan-US meeting in Brussels on 26 March 2011, proposed by the US.
After the strong reaction from the army chief, the Foreign Office also gave a strong statement against the drone attack and demanded an immediate apology from the US.
