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Pakistan rejects UAE appeal on air base ban to
US
Tuesday November 29, 2011 08:14:35 AM,
IANS
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Islamabad: Islamabad
has rejected a request from the UAE to withdraw its call to the US
to vacate a key air base after a NATO raid killed 24 Pakistani
soldiers.
NATO aircraft struck two border posts in Pakistan's tribal region
early Saturday, which promoted call by the country's top civilian
and military leadership to the US to vacate the Shamsi air base in
Balochistan province within 15 days.
UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zeyed Al-Nahyan, who
arrived in Islamabad on an unannounced visit, met with President
Asif Ali Zardari Monday and requested him to take back the
deadline set for the US to leave the air base.
President Zardari however told the UAE minister that it cannot be
withdrawn, as people in the country are angry over the attack,
Xinhua quoted TV channels as saying.
Al-Nahyan had advised the president to defer the decision until
NATO completes its probe into the incident. "Pakistan must show
patience," he said.
The US has been using the air base for years for operations in
Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Saturday's decision was taken at an emergency meeting of the
cabinet defence committee, chaired by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza
Gilani. It had also ordered to close with immediate effect the
NATO's supply lines in Pakistan.
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