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Pakistan to act 'accordingly' against US drone strike
[AA.TR] Pakistain on Thursday said it would duly respond to any U.S dronezap on its soil."Pakistain army has made it clear that any [U.S] dronezap will be responded accordingly," Foreign Ministry front man, Dr Muhammad Faisal said during a weekly press briefing in capital Islamabad while responding to a question. The rare reaction follows recent statements from top U.S. officials, including President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... , accusing Islamabad of "playing a double-game" and providing safe havens to murderous Moslems fighting in war-torn Afghanistan. Drone strikes have been a frequent tactic by the U.S forces since 2004 to target suspected Taliban ...Arabic for students... and al-Qaeda murderous Moslems in Pakistain’s northwestern tribal region, mainly North and South  Wazoo, which border Afghanistan.There has been a significant decrease in dronezaps on Pak soil in recent years after the Pakistain army launched a full-scale onslaught on North Waziristan --a former stronghold of Pak Taliban-- forcing murderous Moslems to flee toward Afghanistan in June 2104. According to local media, more than 3,450 people have been killed in 417 dronezaps in Pakistain since 2004. According to international think tanks and human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights,mind you... groups, including Amnesty international and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, 70 percent of drone victims were unarmed civilians. Despite Pakistain's public objections to the U.S. dronezaps, it is rumored to have given tacit approval to the ongoing controversial operations. Pakistain has also developed its own drone to use in the Death Eater-hit northwestern tribal belt. Already frosty relations between the U.S. and Pakistain --the two allies in the so-called war against terrorism-- have further nosedived since President Trump assumed office in January last year, mainly due to a clash of interests in Afghanistan. Posted by: Fred 2018-01-05 |
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