President Zardari: I'll go to the UN to stop the drones.

From the Daily Times.

President Asif Zardari has told a tribal jirga that Pakistan will appeal to the United Nations to intervene on its behalf against the continued operations of US drones in the Tribal Areas, a tribal elder said on Tuesday.

“I will take the issue of drone attacks to the United Nations if they (the US) do not stop,” tribal elder Malik Waris Khan quoted the president’s response to the tribal elders’ demand for an appropriate government response to the drone attacks. Khan read out the welcome address at a tribal jirga attended by the president during the latter’s recent trip to Peshawar.

The US has stepped up drone attacks in the Tribal Areas over the past year, targeting ‘important’ Al Qaeda elements. Islamabad’s hope that the attacks would stop with a new president in the White House have not materialised. “All jirga members were unanimous in demanding the government act to prevent further drone attacks,” another tribal elder told Daily Times on condition of anonymity.

The tribal elders have a beef and it's legit...the Pakistani govt decision to negotiate with the terrorists dissed the tribal elders in spades.  Sounds like Zardari is telling them what they want to hear to make up for it.

“The government cannot restore its writ until the elders’ role is restored by strengthening them against the Taliban and others,” Malik Qadir told the president during the jirga. “We lost strength and respect because the government agreed to negotiate with the clerics and the Taliban,” he added.