A Drone deal

Pakistan’s former military strongman Pervez Musharraf allowed the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to conduct drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal areas as long as the United States kept away from the country’s nuclear facilities and mountain camps where terrorists were being trained for attacks on India, according to explosive new disclosures that break the wall of silence from both sides on the controversial Predator attacks, and if accurate, again exposes US duplicity on terrorism.
Implicit in the report is Washington’s acceptance of the terms, considering that India-specific terror camps remain untouched by drones.

The report says the ISI and the CIA agreed that all drone flights in Pakistan would operate under the CIA’s covert action authority — meaning that the United States would never acknowledge the missile strikes and that Pakistan would either take credit for the individual killings or remain silent.
The deal also had the stamp of approval from Musharraf, who the NYT says, did not think that it would be difficult to keep up the ruse.