Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA.ir), Some 70 per cent supplies are transported through Pakistan to around 140,000 U.S-led NATO forces in Afghanistan.
Deputy Chief of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Senator Prof. Khurshid Ahmed strongly condemned the yesterday’s American drone attack in North Waziristan tribal region which killed 14 innocent persons.
According to Prof. Khurshid the Government has ‘totally failed’ to respond to the unanimous demand of the Parliament and the people that the Government must take every possible step to get these violations of the country’s sovereignty and brutal killings of Pakistanis stopped.
The Jamaat leader said that now a United Nations’ expert has also come out with a clear statement that the drone attacks are violations of sovereignty and must be stopped.
“It is a time that Pakistani Government must make a fundamental decision to use its legal and political right to stop all supplies to NATO Forces from Pakistan immediately to put enough pressure on America to stop this wanton violation of our sovereignty”, he emphasized.
He asked to take up this issue to Security Council on the basis of this report of the UN Official and also a number of US legal experts’ concern that these American violations of our sovereignty must be stopped forthwith.
“However, for this the Government and people of Pakistan have to stand up to protect their independence and sovereignty and force the United States to stop this humiliating acts of aggression”, the Senator said.
The U.S intensified drone strikes after the suicide bombing at the CIA center in Afghanistan’s Khost province in late December, killing at least seven agents.
The Jordanian bomber appeared in a video along with Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsood.
Officials say that U.S has carried out more than 100 attacks since August 2008 and killed nearly 900 people, majority local tribesmen.
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