Geo Pakistan

Secret deal with US not acceptable: Nisar

Updated at: 1911 PST,  Tuesday, May 17, 2011  ISLAMABAD: The government will have to finish inking secret deals with US. No behind-the-curtain agreements will be acceptable from now and onwards, these were the warning statements made by Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, the leader of opposition in National Assembly (NA) and the leader of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N), Geo News reported. “No Pak-US joint operation against a high-value target in Pakistan will be allowed in future and a judicial commission to probe into US raid on a compound in Abbottabad on May 2 be immediately formed, ” Nisar demanded. Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan was addressing a press conference here at the Punjab House. He said that he came to know though media reports that the federal government and US administration have agreed upon a new code of conduct. “We were not taken into confidence over a secret agreement with US Senator John Kerry,” Nisar informed, alleging government that after passage of the resolution against drone attacks three days ago amid the in-camera joint session of the parliament, the government has started showing its true colours that is resorting to lip-service and doing nothing concrete. He informed that the ink of the parliamentary resolution against US operations had hardly dried out when new drone attacks occurred. Nisar stated that US violated our sovereignty again by triggering drone strikes in presence of Senator Kerry while NATO helicopters injured two Pakistani soldiers in an air-strike. Terming drone attacks against the spirit of the joint resolution of parliament, Nisar called for blockage of NATO supply-line all at once. He said that the briefing was a so-called in-camera that’s why PML-N had demanded government that the joint session of parliament be kept open for media and people. The people and the media were kept unaware of what actually happened by keeping the session ‘in-camera’, he alleged government. The session lasted for 2 hours only while it took 9 more hours to reach consensus on the joint resolution of parliament against US operations and drone attacks, he disclosed. PML-N will send government seven names of the representatives from civil society, politicians, judge and lawyers for formation of the commission to investigate US raid on Pakistani soil, he maintained.