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- Pakistan blames U.S. drone strike for the ‘murder of peace’
- China’s strategic failures in the South China Sea
- China boasts about submarines capable of attacking cities across U.S.
- Report: China sending reconnaissance ship to Hawaii
Pakistan blames U.S. drone strike for the ‘murder of peace’

Hakimullah Mehsud in 2009
Pakistan is calling the U.S. drone strike that killed PakistaniTaliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud a “murder of peace,” because it’s anattack on the peace process that Pakistan has been pursuing with theterrorist group.
The U.S. has put a $5 million price tag on Mehsud’s head because heled of some of the most damaging strikes against U.S. interests byTehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP – the Pakistani Taliban). The worstincident was a suicide attack at a CIA base near Khost in Afghanistanin 2009 that killed seven CIA agents and injured six others. Theincident was later recreated in the film about the hunt for Osama binLaden, Zero Dark 30.
However, according to Pakistan’s Interior Minister, Chaudhry Nisar:
“Pakistan does not see this strike as an attack on aperson, it is an attack on the peace process. Islamabad’s effortshave been ambushed. It was not even an ambush from the front.
Seven-week behind-the-scene efforts by us, where brick by brick wetried to roll a process for peace in our homeland, and what haveyou (US) done? You reduced our weeks-long efforts to ashes hoursbefore a delegation of respected ulema was to leave for Miranshahand hand over a formal dialogue invitation to theTaliban.”
Let’s be clear that this statement by Nisar is fantasy. This wasn’t aMehsud to attend negotiations. That’s all. As soon as the peacetalks were proposed, the Mehsud immediately started to imposeconditions: TTP prisoners must be released from jail, the army must bewithdrawn from the tribal areas where it has been fighting theTaliban, and the government must agree to impose Sharia law on thecountry. These conditions could never have been accepted by thePakistan government. So Nisar’s claim is just another totallyabsurd claim by another politician.
Nisar is demanding that the U.S. end drone strikes. He’d better havea chat with his government’s own Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)agency, which has always worked closely with the U.S. to identifydrone strike targets. It’s quite likely that the ISI was aware of thestrike on Mehsud before it occurred.