The Pakistani government’s call for the US to end its drone war over the country’s tribal areas appeared to have been somewhat successful, with only a single strike in the whole month on June. That hope was shattered overnight, when US drones pounded a home in North Waziristan, killing 17.
Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement condemning the killings as a violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, reiterating their demands for the campaign to end.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has promised to take a harder stance against US strikes than his predecessors, and revealed that while publicly criticizing the attacks, the Zardari government had private agreements in place for the US to continue them.
Yet despite Sharif’s promise to cancel the agreements, the US strikes continue, and that is going to force Sharif to either take more serious action in response or appear to be another willing facilitator.
If Pakistan put a tank in front of the embassy……… and pointed the turret gun at the edifice…&.. Every time a drone strikes Pakistan territory, the tank crew fires one round into the building………. How many drone strikes do you think would happen thereafter….???????? "Nothing personal……….. Only just tit for tat…"
What would Imran Khan have done…………..had he been elected…….???????????
Mr.Sharif Allah is on the side that does not work for high handiness.
"high handiness" [better get it right]…????????? or do you mean "high handedness"
high-handedness – overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiorshigh-handedness – overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors
arrogance, haughtiness, hauteur, lordliness
superbia, pride – unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins)
condescension, disdainfulness, superciliousness – the trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior
contemptuousness – the manifestation of scorn and contempt; "every subordinate sensed his contemptuousness and hated him in return"
hubris – overbearing pride or presumption
domineeringness, imperiousness, overbearingness – the trait of being imperious and overbearing
superiority – displaying a sense of being better than others; "he hated the white man's superiority and condescension"
snobbery, snobbishness, snobbism – the trait of condescending to those of lower social status
Sending the drones and paying only grudging lip service service to the carnage they wrought is then pinnacle of high handedness…… Returning fire, after being fired upon is not, especially after a warning……. Any hostile action done without cause by fiat is imperious and high handed IPSO FACTO………