Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ...
on Wednesday said Pakistain wanted new rules of engagement with the Untied States with a guarantee to respect the country's illusory sovereignty and assurance of "no Abbottabad
... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden....
-like unilateral action in future."
| You don't hide them, we won't need to do the cowboy thingie. Oh, and there is no plausible deniability -- it's your job to keep order within your borders. That's our guarantee. |
He stressed that the drone attacks must be stopped, which were causing collateral damage and were grossly detrimental to the government's efforts to isolate gun-hung tough guys from local population.
The prime minister was addressing the meeting of Afghan and Pak parliamentary delegations held under the auspicious of Pakistain Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency (PILDAT) at the PM House.
Pakistain cut off NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
supplies, got Shamsi airbase vacated, and boycotted the Bonn Conference in the aftermath of the NATO attack on Pak Army checkpost on November 26.
He said Pakistain wanted sovereign, independent, prosperous and stable Afghanistan, which was in its interest.
"Pakistain is a part of the solution and not part of the problem," said the prime minister.
Gilani said the liquidation of Burhanuddin Rabbani
... the gentlemanly murdered legitimate president of Afghanistan...
, Head of the Afghan High Peace Council, was a severe setback to the peace and reconciliation efforts as he was a great supporter of friendship between Pakistain and Afghanistan.
He accepted the suggestion of one of the co-chairmen of the delegation to inaugurate the Engineering University being built in Balkh, Afghanistan with the assistance of Pakistain with a cost of US$ 10 million.
Gilani said Pakistain believed that political process also needed to be underpinned by economic development and therefore was carrying out reconstruction work in Afghanistan out of the US$330 million pledged money.
He said Pakistain plans to build a new block at Mazar Sharif Hospital and a 50-bed eye hospital at Gardez.
He said Pakistain had additionally pledged construction of 50 primary schools and 50 basic health units across Afghanistan.
Initially, these primary schools will be built in Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
, Baghlan and other provinces, he added.
Gilani said Pakistain was offering 2000 fully funded scholarships to Afghan students. Around six thousand Afghan students are enrolled in Pak universities and colleges while about 500,000 Afghan refugee children attend government or other schools in Pakistain.