Pakistain publicly condemns US missile attacks on Taliban and al Qaeda operatives as a violation of its illusory sovereignty, but the new revelations are the latest sign of double-dealing in private.
They come in findings of a Pak investigation into how al Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden
... who used to be alive but now he's not...
evaded detection for nearly a decade, which were published by the Al-Jazeera
... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula,as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS...
news network Monday.
Ahmed Shuja Pasha, who headed Pakistain's premier Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency at the time of bin Laden's killing in 2011, told Sherlocks that drone strikes had their uses.
"The DG (director general) said there were no written agreements. There was a political understanding," the report said.
The Americans had been asked to stop drone strikes because they caused civilian casualties, but "it was easier to say no to them in the beginning, but 'now it was more difficult' to do so," it quoted the former spymaster as saying.
"Admittedly the drone attacks had their utility, but they represented a breach of national illusory sovereignty. They were legal according to American law but illegal according to international law," the report quoted the ISI chief as saying.