...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
General Assembly (UNGA) resolution which last week called for making drone attacks compliant with the international law.
Cooperation with the United States on Afghanistan, the FO said, would, however, depend on the future American presence in the neighbouring country.
"We are very clear on that. Our foreign policy is not just on drones or our relations with one country. It is a wide spectrum. We have our national interests and we are working on many tracks with the international community to expand our relations and to promote economic development in Pakistain. We do not see the foreign policy or what we seek to achieve from it through the narrow prism of any single issue," Foreign Office spokesperson Tasneem Aslam said at the weekly media briefing.
Her comments apparently contrasted the previous FO position that "drone strikes have a negative impact on the mutual desire of both countries (US and Pakistain) to forge a cordial and cooperative relationship".
This position was last stated on Nov 1 and wasn't reflected in subsequent statements on drones though there has been a ritual condemnation of the attacks.
The spokesperson's remarks, which followed the latest drone attack in Miranshah
... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a
ministatein centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas...
and the first since the UNGA passed a resolution on drones, represented a possible softening of the government's position on drone strikes.
However,
women are made to be loved, not understood...
while reiterating the policy position on the attacks, Ms Aslam said the government condemned the Thursday night's attack in North
Wazoo for being "a violation of Pakistain's illusory sovereignty and territorial integrity"."It has been consistently maintained that drone strikes are counter-productive, entail loss of innocent civilian lives and have human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
and humanitarian implications. Such strikes also set dangerous precedents in inter-state relations," she added.
She also noted that an international consensus against drone attacks existed now and was growing.
Regarding cooperation with the US on Afghanistan, she said, there was still lack of clarity about the future US presence in Afghanistan.
"It depends upon the events in Afghanistan and what kind of presence the US will have after 2014," she said.