A top US senator warned Pakistan on Sunday that there are strings attached to financial aid from the United States, and urged greater cooperation following cross-border NATO air strikes that killed 24 Pakistani troops.
“There is a lot of diplomacy that has to occur and they need to understand that our support for them financially is dependent on their cooperation with us,” Republican Senator Jon Kyl said on the Fox News Sunday talk show. The air strikes on Saturday have brought another chill to already frosty relations between the two uneasy allies, with Islamabad still a key partner for US military operations in neighboring Pakistan.
The United States, which depends on Pakistan as a vital life-line to supply 130,000 foreign troops fighting in landlocked Afghanistan, has scrambled to salvage the alliance.
In a joint statement, US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have offered “deepest condolences” and said they backed “NATO’s intention to investigate immediately.” Senator Dick Durbin, a top Democrat, echoed Clinton and Panetta’s statement, offering condolences, but warned that the crisis would likely further endanger US troops in the region. “As difficult as it is to find our way through this diplomatic morass, between the incompetence and corruption in Afghanistan, and complicity in parts of Pakistan, our soldiers are caught right in the middle of this at a time when they’re trying to bring peace to this region,” he said.
Clinton and Penetta are global terrorists with the same ethics as Hitler and Stalin. They want to "bring peace" to nobody. Their objective is an enslaved Afghanistan for the profits of their terrorist gangs, and they will stop at nothing, including mass murder of innocents to achieve their criminal goals. If Pakistan wants to commit suicide as a nation, it will cooperate with these vampires. Pakistan can become a wealthy and peaceful nation only if it boots out all the US/NATO terrorists and enters into trade pacts with nations like Russia, Turkey. Afghanistan must do the same. In the meantime Pakistan must stop all NATO death transports and shoot down all Obama child killing drones if it wants a hope of surviving.
Muhammod Donners:
Don't talk for Afghanistan. Talk for you and Pak only.
Time for Pakistan to show that it is no call girl who takes abuse in silence. Tell America to stop being disrespectful towards our dead. They killed them and we want justice. Some washed up political has been on the payrol of an interest group has no right to lecture us.
That would be awesome – US Congress please sever all ties with Pakistan. There is no need for a “friend” like America.
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