Senator Carl Levin is the first senior US figure to publicly rebuke the Pakistani government for its double game of criticizing the US air campaign against the Taliban and al Qaeda while secretly providing support and approval. From The Times of India:
In a public rebuke to the Pakistani leadership on Thursday, a leading US lawmaker, supported by the Obama administration, told reporters after a visit to the region that he was ”very unhappy” with the vocal criticism of the drone strikes from top officials in Islamabad when in private they “not only understand and acquiesce but in many cases support the drone attacks.”
Washington, US Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Carl Levin, told reporters in a conference call, would prefer “a silence on their part rather than a public attack on us that creates real problems for us in terms of the Pakistani public and helps create some real animosity” against the United States.
“I just think it’s wrong for them, I’ve told them that to their face,” said Levin, who met in Pakistan with Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Pakistan’s army chief of staff Ashfaq Kayani.
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