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Pakistan accuses US of sabotage

Says attacks aim at derailing peace talks, summons US envoy; Taliban set to elect new chief

Agencies
Pakistan yesterday summoned the US ambassador to protest over two recent drone attacks including the one that killed the leader of the Taliban, the foreign ministry said.
Hakimullah Mehsud, who was under a $5 million US government bounty, was buried late Friday after being killed when a drone targeted his car in a compound in North Waziristan tribal district.
Earlier, Pakistan's interior minister said the death of Pakistani Mehsud has destroyed the country's nascent peace process.
"This is not just the killing of one person, it's the death of all peace efforts," Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said.
Nisar accused the United States of “scuttling" efforts to begin peace talks, and said "every aspect" of Pakistan's co-operation with Washington would be reviewed.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had pledged to talk with the Taliban to try to end its campaign of violence, which has left thousands dead in bombings and shootings across the country.
The foreign ministry said it had summoned US ambassador Richard Olson to protest over the drone strike that killed Mehsud and another that hit a day earlier.
The ministry statement also stressed that despite the drone strike the government was "determined to continue with efforts to engage the TTP".
Islamabad routinely condemns drone strikes as a violation of sovereignty, and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif urged President Barack Obama to end them during White House talks last week, but summoning the ambassador is an unusual step.
The strike came a day before a Pakistani delegation had been due to fly to North Waziristan to meet Mehsud.
Pakistani media say Mehsud's funeral has taken place at an unknown location in the tribal area of North Waziristan.
The Taliban's ruling council met yesterday to choose a new leader. Unconfirmed
reports say regional commander Khan Said Sajna has been elected to the top job.
However, senior Taliban commander Azam Tariq dismissed media reports that Said had been elected as "speculation", telling AFP a decision would be made "in the next few days".
Pakistan's security forces have been put on high alert following Mehsud's death.
The killing has prompted fears of TTP reprisals, as happened after the death of founder Baitullah Mehsud in 2009.
Caitlin Hayden, a spokesperson for the US president's National Security Council, would not comment on any US government
involvement or confirm the death but said it would be a serious loss for the group.
The Pakistan government has strongly condemned the drone attack as a violation of Pakistan's sovereignty.
Opposition parties accused the US of using the drone strike to stymie the peace process before talks proper had even started.
Former cricketer Imran Khan, leader of the Pakistan Tehrek-e-Insaaf (PTI) party that rules in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, said the strike had "sabotaged” peace talks and showed the US did not want peace in Pakistan.
PTI said it would call an emergency session of the provincial assembly to block Nato supply convoys transiting Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on their way to Afghanistan.
Mehsud's death is seen as another setback for the militant group after the recent capture of a senior commander by US forces in Afghanistan.
Mehsud, who led the insurgency from North Waziristan, had a $5m FBI bounty on his head and was thought to be responsible for the deaths of thousands of people.
He came to prominence in 2007 as a commander under the militant group's founder Baitullah Mehsud, with the capture of300 Pakistani soldiers adding to his prestige among the militants.
His second-in-command, Waliur Rehman, was killed in a similar drone strike in May.