Another day, another four unidentified people killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan’s tribal areas.
It was the second US drone strike in as many days, and coming in the wake of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s address to the UN General Assembly, which centered almost entirely on the need to end such attacks, the US seems to be escalating the attacks once again.
It sparked another angry condemnation from Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry, and this time it seems to be even more serious than the usual ones, saying that the US attacks are not only a violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty but are killing innocent civilians.
Pakistan has regularly pushed the sovereignty violation argument, but has rarely addressed the identities of the victims, the vast majority of whom are never named. With the US facing an upcoming Congressional hearing on the drone strikes, the fact that a lot of the program’s victims are innocent bystanders seems to be all the more important to the case for ending it.
Sharif I can’t understand why you allow your country to be bomb on a regular basic and just sit there and cry like a baby. ” are you a man or a mouse”?
Exactly jtt. I ask the same question. If it is making you so angry, shoot the bloody damn things down!
bravado starts wars.
and besides if they wanted to stop the drone strikes they would not have to shoot them down, rather they could just walk up to them and smash em with hammers
they are flown out of pakistani bases after all.
and the whole thing is quite muddled by the fact that the areas that are bombed are technically autonomous, and since the war on terror the pakistani central government at least in certain areas is viewed and acts as an occupying army
Pakistani military and its arm ISI have been in the business of exporting terrorism to India for a long time. Obviously it never occurred to them that their acts infringes of Indian sovereignty. Drones are killing the Pakistani based terrorist. Sharif should be thanking America for making his "job" of eliminating the thugs easier.
Agree completely with "jtt"
Why the hell don't you order your Army to shoot down the drones and then see if the USG does something about it?