Shamsi Airbase

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Re: Shamsi Airbase

@Mirch

Char din key chandni phir andhairee raat ho gee.
Pakistani leadership cannot afford to take a stand with US and should not . Pakistani leadership has to maintain a delicate balance in keeping its masses in check and maintain a relationship with US. US is that fly in Pakistani soup which they have to swallow . Pakistan cannot afford to make a super power its enemy for a mistake which can be made by any army of the world. A few years ago in this same war US forces killed Canadian troops by mistake. Mistakes do happen in a war. In Kosovo or somewhere a few years ago , US fired rockets on Chinese embassy by mistake , did China and US went on war on that issue ? No.
Pakistan and US are fighting the same war and mistakes do happen in such a complicated war. What do you think , US can afford to take panga with Pakistan and launch such a horrible attack on purpose ?
Those check posts were US’s first line of defense in Pakistani territory why would they destroy it on purpose ?
Only if they were smoking the same thing as some of the posters who are calling for takeover of US embassies by masses. Thanda thanda kh-o bhai-o aur bhan-o sasti jazbatiat sirf siasat danoon ko hee zaib daitee hay.

@Mirch

You have to wait till the investigation is over as to what went wrong , why and how.
Like last year two Pakistani solders were killed and it was found that the fired warning shots , but US helicopters mistook it as an attack. 300 feet of distance from Afghan border is not enough distance for a chopper to determine where their boundary ends and the other one starts. They might have come very near to the check posts and personnel from check post started firing at them and all the mess started. Who know what really happened unless a thorough and proper investigation is over.

no wonder we love to believe whatever gora says

what investigation??? do you know the checkposts were 2.5 KM inside the pakistani border? and do you know both posts were almost 1 KM appart from each other? and do you know the attach continued for more than 1 hour (some news say 2 hours) and do you know ISPR clearly said they “pleaded” NATO command to stop the attack and conveyed them that its Pakistna Army they are bombing, just in case if it was a mistake, but it continued, and do you know there were probably 2 helicopters and 2 A-10 fighter aircrafts involved? and do you know these check posts are not some like a remote post which will be difficult to identify, they were well built and well recognized posts with proper flag and markings, GPS coordinates/ map-references were shared with NATO several times to avoid any miss-understanding. If investigation is to be done, it should be to find out who ordered the attack, and who down played the request to stop (that’s humiliating to even say this now, we should have retaliated, not requested to stop) the investigation if any, should clearly name the responsible and nothing less than a court martial should be accepted.

As for Shamsi Airbase, its not enough at all Pakistan needs to deny then its airspace, regular american/nato flights from their aircraft career in the arabian sea to the bases in Afghanistan use the length of Pakistan’s airspace that needs to stop, only vacating shamsi base is not enough, but its important anyway.