time is running short for "drone strikes" in pakistan!

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time is running short for "drone strikes" in pakistan!

I guss, the time is running out for the US"drone strikes" in pakistan, THE PAKISTANI militry establishment, seriously angry with the "US Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, who served under Mr. Bush and is staying on under Mr. Obama & it is expected very much?
it was bieng observed, that the preasure is mounting on the politicians by the army in quiet, & after that president "Asif Ali Zardari" tryied to wrote & described in a US newspaper article !

GEO Pakistan
Pak needs no lectures on war against terror: Zardari
Updated at: 1420 PST, Wednesday, January 28, 2009

ISLAMABAD: Advocating the need for recasting Pakistan-U.S. relationship into a long-term partnership for peace, stability and development, President Asif Ali Zardari Wednesday asked President Barack Obama to help resolve the lingering Kashmir dispute that remains at the heart of South Asian unrest and challenges like extremism.

“President Obama understands that for Pakistan to defeat the extremists, it must be stable. For democracy to succeed, Pakistan must be economically viable,” Zardari wrote in a US newspaper article in which he congratulated the new U.S. leader on assumption of office and extended Pakistan’s “hand in friendship”.

As part of economic empowerment efforts, President Zardari called for swift progress towards realization of economic assistance expansion initiative (Biden-Lugar legislation) in Congress as well as the preferential trade program of reconstruction opportunity zones and said, “assistance to Pakistan is not charity.”
“The water crisis in Pakistan is directly linked to relations with India. Resolution could prevent an environmental catastrophe in South Asia, but failure to do so could fuel the fires of discontent that lead to extremism and terrorism. We applaud the president’s desire to engage our nation and India to defuse the tensions between us", he said.

“Unlike in the 1980s, we are surrogates for no one. With all due respect, we need no lectures on our commitment. This is our war. It is our children and wives who are dying”, the president added.

Zardari renewed Pakistan’s determination to curb the menace of terrorism in its own interest and called for equipping Pakistan with modern security tools and technology to proactively fight the terrorists “on our terms".


GEO Pakistan
Drone attacks can put Zardari’s govt at risk: experts
Updated at: 1246 PST, Wednesday, January 28, 2009

LONDON: Elite Western defence experts believe that the US-led military intervention is faltering in Afghanistan and can collapse unless a robust diplomatic strategy, involving tribal outreach and a more coordinated international approach, is adopted, said International Institute for Strategic Studies survey.
They also warned that the continuing US strikes in Pakistan’s tribal areas could undermine the position of President Asif Zardari.

The survey also warned that continuing US strikes against alleged Taliban and al-Qaeda targets in the Pakistan’s tribal areas could undermine the position of President Asif Zardari.

“To effectively pursue the campaign on terror, he will need to balance growing US pressure for military strikes in the tribal areas with the Pakistani Army’s decreasing tolerance for such attacks,” the report said.

“He will have to ensure that the ensuing domestic political turbulence, heightened by the growing economic crisis, does not place his own government at risk from the Army.”