Per an agreement by Pakistan’s All Parties Conference (APC), the government says that preparations are now underway to take the issue of US drone strikes against their territory to the United Nations, since the US clearly refuses to stop on their own.
Pakistan’s previous government had a secret agreement in place to allow the drone strikes while publicly criticizing them, and as the US has continued the attacks the newly elected government seems determined to make it clear that secret policy is over.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ran on campaign promises of stopping the attacks, and so far it doesn’t appear to have changed anything, though US officials have given lip-service to the idea the strikes are going to eventually end.
The APC agreed, as have most political parties and the Pakistani court system, that US strikes are a violation of the nation’s sovereignty, as well as international law. The US argues that the attacks are legal under their mostly secret interpretation of those laws.
This raises the question of whether the Pakistani armed forces are under the control of the government. It would seem likely that an F-16 could make pretty short work of a Predator drone. They have more than 60 of them. But the government doesn't appear to have the power to order the Air Force to shoot one down.
Finally!
Of course, the US will veto any action to sanction the US and it's satellites.
…something about authoritarians that feed off a sense of invulnerability… ~'child that's never really been tested.' So a 'terrorist' attack would tend to vindicate their instinctive alliance to power, but what about sustained high tech bombing or 'crippling sanctions' ? Those come from something somehow more powerful. Couple it with a toppling from the imagined moral-high-ground… I wonder if sanctions might really have the effect here that they were (i think) disingenuously argued to have elsewhere? Or maybe they'd be spun effectively as foreign meddling…rather than a-long-time-coming…
The Pakistan government should invite the BFF of the US President and Secretary of Defense, International Norm, to help them out as soon as he can be moved from Syria.
The deaths of innocent men, women, and children killed in drone attacks are more numerous than all the deaths from school shootings put together. These innocent deaths lie at the feet of President Obama. President Obama is a butcher, there is no other way to put it. Killing innocents with drones is ok, killing innocents with gas is not ok? What gross hipocracy. What has happened to us?
As Duglarri says,The Pakistanis could destroy every drone flown in Pakistan,but don't. This is just for domestic opinion in Pakistan,who hate US,with good reason,and another misdirection by the corrupt.