Pakistani ambassador to U.S. calls CIA drone strikes a ‘clear violation’

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Sherry Rehman, the Pakistani ambassador to the United States, addresses reporters at an event in Washington.

Pakistani ambassador to U.S. calls CIA drone strikes a ‘clear violation’
By Karen DeYoung, Published: February 5

CIA drone strikes in Pakistan are “a clear violation of our sovereignty and a violation of international law” that threaten stable relations between the two governments, Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States said Tuesday.

Persistent reports that Pakistan has tacitly approved the strikes while publicly denouncing them are untrue, Ambassador Sherry Rehman said.

“Let me assure you that since we have been in government, there has been no quiet complicity, no question of wink and nod,” she said, referring to the hundreds of drone attacks on militant targets, most of them under the Obama administration.

Her comments, in a meeting with reporters organized by the Christian Science Monitor, underscored the fragility of the thaw in U.S. relations with Pakistan after what Rehman said were years of “chronic distrust and periods of crisis management.”