Drones for Pakistan

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Obama administration and Defense Secretary Gates have decided to give a dozen American UAV's to the Pakistani government. The United States will provide a dozen unarmed aerial spy drones toPakistan for the first time as part of an effort to encourage Pakistan’s cooperation in fighting Islamic militants on the Afghanistan border, American defense officials said Thursday. But Pakistani military leaders, rebuffing American pressure, said they planned no new offensives for at least six months.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani of Pakistan, right, shook hands with Anne Patterson, the American ambassador to Pakistan, as Secretary of Defense Robert Gates looked on in Islamabad on Thursday. via nytimes.com via holgerawakens.blogspot.com

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