A panel of legislators in Pakistan has demanded that the U.S. stop drone attacks that have killed hundreds in that country. The panel also demands the U.S. apologize for an attack that killed 24 Pakistani troops at a border post last year. In addition, the panel called for new agreement terms with NATO before it will consider reopening a supply route to Afghanistan.
The demands were included in a draft to the Pakistani Parliament presented by Senator Raza Rabbani, chairman of the committee on national security on March 20. The U.S. has continued the unmanned aerial attacks in spite of previous Pakistani objections.
Rabbani charged that the Nov. 26 attack was a violation of Pakistani sovereignty and called for action against those responsible. The Pakistani government, responding to widespread public outrage, took swift action after the drone attack by closing a major NATO supply route.
