Tensions Continue To Rise Between US And Pakistan

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November 05, 2013

Pakistani tribal villagers hold a rally on Dec. 10, 2010, to condemn U. S. drone attacks on their villages in border areas along the Afghanistan border, in Islamabad, Pakistan. (B.K. Bangash/AP)

Pakistan's parliament will discuss the country's ties to the U.S., after an American drone strike killed Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud last week.

Pakistanis reacted angrily, saying the strike violated its sovereignty.

"The two sides will continue to need each other and to continue to distrust each other," Owen Bennett Jones, a BBC contributor based in Pakistan, told Here & Now's Robin Young.

Guest

Owen Bennett-Jones, British journalist, author and one of the hosts of Newshour on the BBC World Service. He tweets @OwenBennettJone.

This segment aired on November 5, 2013.

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