Washington: Pakistan has ruled out allowing US drone attacks in the country but will invite military trainers back into Pakistan, media reports said.
Media reports come at time when a parliamentary body has finalized its recommendation with regard to reevaluate relations with the US in aftermath of Nato raid in Mohmand that killed at least 24 Pakistani soldiers. The recommendations are lily to be be placed before a joint sitting of the parliament next week.
Quoting unnamed Pakistani official the reports said, the conditions will include no covert CIA or military operations on the ground in Pakistan, and no unauthorized incursions into its airspace. Drones, which are the CIA’s biggest weapon against militants hiding in the tribal belt dividing Afghanistan and Pakistan, “can never return,.”
“They will never be allowed back, at Shamsi or anywhere else,” the official was quoted as having been said.
In return, Pakistan would allow back US military trainers, including Special Forces teams, and a resumption of close cooperation with the CIA in targeting militants.
It would also reopen the Torkham and Chaman border crossings into Afghanistan, which have been closed to NATO supply convoys since the attack.
Progress can be rapid once the conditions would be presented to the America.
Reports said Islamabad also would reopen its doors to high-level US diplomats after an embarrassing snub this week to President Obama’s special envoy to the region, Marc Grossman, who was denied his request to visit Pakistan in the middle of his tour of South Asia.
Pakistan wants working conditions with Washington that provide “respect for the nation, its sovereignty – both its soil and airspace – and equal terms of cooperation, the reports said.
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