UPI en Español  |   UPI Asia  |   About UPI  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Pakistani premier faults drone attacks

|
 
Published: Dec. 26, 2010 at 12:02 PM

MULTAN, Pakistan, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Pakistan's prime minister Sunday criticized U.S. drone strikes as counterproductive in the fight against terrorism.

Speaking in Multan, Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani assailed the use of drones by foreign powers but said, "We have asked them to provide us with drone technology so we can use it against terrorists," the government's Associated Press of Pakistan reported.

He said the terrorists' strongholds have been eliminated and they are on the run, which is "why they are attacking soft targets."

Gilani also said leaders of his Pakistan People's Party would be updated on the investigation of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's 2007 assassination.

Topics: Syed Yousuf Raza, Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani
© 2010 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
'Star Trek Into Darkness' screening NBC upfronts Met Ball 2013
'Great Gatsby' premieres in New York Spire raised on top of One WTC 2013: Celebrity break ups and divorces
Additional World News Stories
1 of 14
The 2013 Billboard Music Awards
View Caption
Singer Miley Cyrus arrives at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards held at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada on May 19, 2013. UPI/Jim Ruymen
fark
Educators worry that students pretending to assasinate each other could lead to real violence, re-enacting...
Not news: Woman can't find changing table for infant News: Staff gets upset when she changes diaper...
Dear Americans, please stop eating healthy. Sincerely, the Food Industry
Manager of Chicago's Navy Pier rides Ferris wheel to world record, gets off and tumbles into water...
Someone bravely tried the new Taco Bell breakfast tacos so you don't have to
Blind gunslinger is told he's hitting his targets "80 or something percent" these days, up from...