Finally the US is out in the open, so to tomorrow can Pakistan and other countries also take action against their enemies in other countries using drones or other tecnologies?
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Ullu de.......
Bhar mein jao khabeeso tuwanu Allah he puche ga.
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champions of human rights can do anything!
did you read that Pakistan has lodged complaint against North Waziristan drone attacks? they may also boycott Chicago Summit as well.
as if its going to change anything ;(
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A Pakistani human rights lawyer says over 2,800 of the 3,000 people killed over the past seven years in non-UN-sanctioned US assassination drone strikes in Pakistan were civilians, Press TV reports.
Shahzad Akbar, the director of the Foundation for Fundamental Rights, told Press TV on Saturday that only 170 of the people killed in the aerial attacks on the northwestern tribal belt of Pakistan have been identified as militants.
That means that “over 2,800 people were civilians, whose identities are not known, and they have just been killed on suspicion of being militants,” he added.
PressTV - US drones killed 2,800 civilians in Pakistan in 7 years
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The bigger issue which is the route cause of the drones is the recognition of durrand line as the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. As its not considered to be a border by people living in fata, and Afghanistan. I guess the Americans and the militants both use that as an excuse to carry out their illegal activities across the border.
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I doubt if they will recognize Durrand line in near future! ... remember how after nato attack, one of the reasons they provided for the attacks was that ill defined border line! like you said, its just an excuse for Kabul and Nato to carry on with their activities and then blame us that we are not doing enough!
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whtever they do is legal,huh:disgust:
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It is Pakistan that allows it, so why ask justification from the perpetrator? It is like requesting the Nazis to think about the human cost of killing the Jews.
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Legal or not they are very effective in taking out terrorists. Drones have done more to decimate terrorist than PA/ISI.
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Legal or not they are very effective in taking out terrorists. Drones have done more to decimate terrorist than PA/ISI.
You are a supporter of ANP, right ? Cuz only people like them hate pakistan and pakistanis and wish all sorts of calamity on pakistanis.
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champions of human rights can do anything!
did you read that Pakistan has lodged complaint against North Waziristan drone attacks? they may also boycott Chicago Summit as well.
as if its going to change anything ;(
Might is right. It can turn everything legal and give you the right to honour yourself with such lofty titles.
It can also give you the right to lecture others, self-righteously and sanctimoniously, about terrorism, human dignity, human rights, and conspiracy theories.
[Check the thread about the activist doctor killed in Balochistan].
Even after 'liberating' thousands of Iraqis through 'liquidation' and then several thousand more through civil war.
These Iraqis were liberated from America's own despot who was armed to the teeth to fight Iran.
That too on the 'credible' evidence of WMDs presented so righteously and boldly in the UN by honourable (poor) Mr. Powell.
Not to mention indirectly killing half a million children under age 12 in the decade before through economic sanctions.
And that is just mentioning one country.
What a sick joke !
What's amazing is that there are people who are ready to lap all this up eagerly.
These people must have selective memories or are just not very intelligent.
If they are intelligent and still believe all this crap, it's because it aligns their thinking or agenda.
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waiting for CENTCOM uncle to come and tell us the importance of drone attacks and rooting out the barbarian terrorists
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Legal or not they are very effective in taking out terrorists. Drones have done more to decimate terrorist than PA/ISI.
As long as your relatives were not the obscenely termed 'collateral damage', everything is good my friend.
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jis ki lathhi.....
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It is Pakistan that allows it, so why ask justification from the perpetrator? It is like requesting the Nazis to think about the human cost of killing the Jews.
Unfortunately Pakistan has always been run by for-sale, imposed stooges.
And the terrorists always seem to leave them alone. Hmmm...
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jis ki lathhi.....
... Uss ki Majj !
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… as long as the target are lowly Muslims ( whose lives are worth a dime a dozen ) !
Its open season on them at this point in human history.
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Absolutely disgusting.
Plain and simple murder of civilians.
[It is time for their relatives to demand $10 million for each murdered.]
And extra-judicial assassination of the actual terrorists.
But 2800 is a small number unfortunately.
Imperial and neo-colonial powers get away with genocide without so much as a smear on their reputation.
What was Iraq in the last 20 years ?
The same theme can be repeated over and over since early 1900s and for one country after another.
And the sad part is that the fear of terrorism has only increased since 2001.
As long as Pakistani leaders sell themselves to the highest bidder, this will most likely continue.
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Here is a funny (but not really) cartoon titled ‘No Exit’ by Andy Singer showing a ‘handy US Foreign Policy Flowchart’.
It is several years old but keeps proving itself apt year after year, one misadventure after another.
War News Updates: How Did U.S. Foreign Policy Get America Involved In The Libyan Civil War?
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I agree the whole premiss of drone attacks is very dangerous, tomorrow any country can use them to attack their enemies in other countries disregarding borders, it could lead to total chaos.
Reaction: US rights group seeks all facts – The Express Tribune
**WASHINGTON: ****The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has demanded that the US Justice Department release all documents pertaining to the drone programme.
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Reacting to John Brennan’s statement, Deputy Legal Director Jameel Jaffer said it was ‘an unambiguous acknowledgement’ and the ‘clearest explanation’ thus far of the programme’s purported legal basis; however he was not convinced beyond that.
“Brennan supplies legal conclusions, not legal analysis. We continue to believe that the administration should release the Justice Department memos underlying the programme – particularly the memo that authorises the extrajudicial killing of American terrorism suspects. And the administration should release the evidence it relied on to conclude that an American citizen, Anwar al-Aulaqi, could be killed without charge, trial, or judicial process of any kind,” Jaffer said.
**ACLU Director National Security Project Hina Shamsi added that the organisation continued to believe that the programme itself is not just unlawful but dangerous.
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Published in The Express Tribune, May 1[SUP]st[/SUP], 2012.