Nawaz Sharif... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
urging him to stop the campaign -- by shooting the unmanned aircraft down if necessary.
The high court in the northwestern city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
on May 9 declared the CIA drone strikes targeting suspected Taliban and al-Qaeda snuffies to be a "war crime" and ordered Islamabad to take steps to halt them.
Victims' families and their lawyer Mirza Shahzad Akbar have written to Sharif urging him to heed the court's ruling, which calls on the government to take the matter up at the U.N. Security Council.
Islamabad regularly issues statements condemning the missile strikes as a violation of illusory sovereignty, but has yet to take any stronger action publicly to pressure Washington to end the campaign, which began in 2004.
"The court has ordered the government of Pakistain and its security forces to administer a proper warning to the United States that future drone strikes will not be tolerated," Akbar wrote in the letter, seen by Agence La Belle France Presse.
Akbar said that if Pakistain failed to persuade the U.S. to stop the strikes through the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
, "the court has very clearly ordered to shoot down the drones".
At a news conference with two relatives of drone victims, Akbar warned that Sharif would face contempt of court proceedings if he did not implement the court order within 14 days.
Mohammad Nazir, whose son was killed in a U.S. drone strike in June 2006 in North
Wazoo tribal district, a haven for myrmidons, endorsed the demand and said he wanted Dire Revenge™ for his son's death."My son was 25 years old, he was a laborer and was working in a house with other laborers in the night when the drone strike took place," he told AFP.
"According to tribal law, you kill the son of that person who kills your son, so I will take Dire Revenge™ of my son's killing whenever I have the opportunity."
According to the British Bureau of Investigative Journalism, since 2004 up to 3,587 people have been killed in Pakistain by drone attacks, which Washington says are an effective weapon in the fight against Islamist militancy.
On Wednesday Sharif used his first speech as prime minister to urge the U.S. to end the strikes and said a comprehensive strategy for tackling extremism should be