Islamabad: Former military chief of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on Friday confessed for the first time that his government had made a secret deal with the United States for allowing drone strikes in Pakistan.
Pakistani governments had always denied support for the drone attacks as it is against the people’s sentiments in the country but a WikiLeak document had revealed that during back-door meetings with US officials, politicians had always supported the strikes.
During an interview with CNN, the former president said that permission was given, “only on a few occasions, when a target was absolutely isolated and no chance of collateral damage.”
This is the first time that any Pakistani official has publicaly admitted to giving permission for drone strikes, despite repeated denials.
Musharraf said that Pakistani leaders would give permission for US drone strikes after discussions involving military and intelligence units and only if “there was no time for our own … military to act.”
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