Two Pakistani girls. Two very different stories

[Captain1]

Re: Two Pakistani girls. Two very different stories

@Sa1eem

^^^ No, I do not know that they could be lying, neither I have any reason to believe they could be lying.

Actually, ground realities is that if ministry of defence wanted to lie regarding drone civilian kill figures then they would have given higher civilian kill figures, because Nawaz government at least claim they want drones strikes to stop, and that means, giving figures to show that drones strikes are killing too many civilians.

One also have to realise that the figures of death given is of ‘drone strikes during PPP government’, and thus it makes no sence or can give any advantage to PMLN government by showing that drone strikes during PPP government caused minimal civilian casualties, rather, only 9 civilian death in 2009, 2 in 2010, none in 2012 and none in 2013. Such figures could make PPP government drone record quite efficient, especially if more civilian kills due to drone happens during Nawaz government … hence incentive for present defence ministry is to give higher civilian kill figures than lower.

What is political incentive for ministry of defence to lie to Pakistan senate regarding civilian death due to drone strikes? Can you think of any? I cant.

The numbers were not actually gathered by current administration, but kept “accumulating” gathered by prior administrations. Why the govt would lie to keep number of civilians lower? The answer is that they don’t want the black spot to be bigger than they think they can handle. They want to keep it low enough to be “acceptable” levels in international standards as well as well as for local masses. Imagine if govt admitted that the terrorists died = 500 and civilians died = 2500, you think international advocates for human rights will not be making more noises, similarly local population will be even more vocal.