The drone strike that killed Mehsud in the North Waziristan tribal area came a day before the government was to send a three-member delegation of clerics to the region with a formal invitation to start peace talks, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said. It never ended up going. Khan called the drone attack murder to the peace effort, but hoped the process could continue. He said he warned the U.S. ambassador previously that American drone strikes should not be carried out while Pakistan was trying to hold peace talks and no Taliban leader should be targeted. The government later summoned the U.S. ambassador to complain. When asked whether he thought the U.S. was trying to deliberately scuttle the peace process, the minister responded: Absolutely.
Posted on: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 08:04:00 +0000
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