[NEWS] Pakistan Foreign Affairs Minister Denies Tacit Pact For Drones

Reuters reports Pakistan's minister for foreign affairs is disputing the Washington Post account of a mutual understanding between the country and the U.S. concerning drone attacks:

"There is no understanding. There is no tacit understanding," Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi told parliament.

Information Minister Sherry Rehman rejected the report as "cooked up."

"There is absolutely no question of government entering into such agreement that would allow bombardment of its own people." [...]

Although the United States has refrained from sending ground troops into Pakistani territory since the September 3 incursion, its Predators have carried out nearly 20 missile strikes since then, the latest in the past week in which 12 people, including five foreign militants, were killed.