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 Post subject: Drone strikes enhance terrorism in Pakistan
PostPosted: Sun Oct 20, 2013 8:49 am 
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A Pakistani youth holds a banner of a US drone during a protest in Lahore against drone attacks in Pakistani tribal areas in Lahore on July 5, 2013. (AFP Photo / Arif Ali)

RT: The UN is calling for action now, but your country has been targeted by US drones for years. Describe to us the situation on the ground. How bad is it really?

Sultan M. Hali: The situation is really bad. Pakistan has suffered - probably the most in the region - not only because of terrorism, but because of terrorism which became enhanced owing to the drone strikes. Previous regimes in Pakistan have been accused of actually providing a tacit approval. Im not sure whether that is true or not, but the fact remains that the drone attacks have caused collateral damage, and the collateral damage in turn has given a marked rise to the number of terrorists because they have been able to recruit some of the relatives of the people who have been slain in these attacks innocently. That is how the terrorism in Pakistan has spread.

We have a new regime here which is nearly about three and a half months old. But this regime - which is headed by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif - he is headed towards the US for his first meeting with President Obama at an official level during his third tenure now as prime minister. And he is carrying the aspirations of people, because in Pakistan there is so much anger that in all parties a political conference was held, in which every single political party not only participated, but they endorsed the fact that the drone attacks are causing maximum terrorism, and they have empowered the government to tell the US that they must put an end to it.

RT: Washington is saying that precision drone strikes are meant to cause small collateral damage - less than conventional warfare. But obviously the situation on the ground is different. To what extent do you agree or disagree with what Washington is saying?

SH: I dont agree with that because the US apparently is hiding fact; it has not come clean...Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was in Pakistan only a month back. And he made very clear that the use of the drones for aggression is totally a contravention to international law. And now the poll that you just mentioned, by Ben Emmerson, it carries the same facts and figures.

It is ironical that a little girl like Malala Yousafzai, the teenager who was targeted by the Taliban, recently met President Obama on exactly the same day that she was to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, but she did not get that award. And she was meeting Mr. Obama who is a Nobel Prize winner for peace, which is actually ironical because he has caused more damage, more mayhem, and has killed more people...Malala Yousafzai told [Obama] very clearly, that Mr. President, the drone attacks must stop because they are causing more terrorism in Pakistan. So I think that the United States of America, they must come clean, and they have to take responsibility. Because not only Ben Emmerson [but also] Professor Christof Heyns, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings and summary executions, has come out with the fact that this particular use of technically the use of drones is a misuse of technology and international policing, so it has come to an end. If it doesnt, then Im afraid that terrorism will continue.



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 Post subject: Pakistan accuses US of scuttling Taliban talks with drone st
PostPosted: Sat Nov 02, 2013 10:18 pm 
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Pakistan accuses US of scuttling Taliban talks with drone strike, summons ambassador

A Pakistani policeman searches a vehicle along a street in Peshawar on November 2, 2013 following the killing of Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud in a US drone attack in the Pakistan tribal region (AFP Photo / A Majeed)

"Brick by brick in the persist seven weeks we tried to evolve a process by which we could bring peace to Pakistan and what have you (the US) done?" Pakistans Interior Minister, Chaudhry Nisar, Ali Khan said. "You have scuttled it on the eve, 18 hours before a formal delegation of respected ulema (religious scholars) was to fly to Miranshah and hand over this formal invitation."

He said that following Fridays drone attack "every character" of cooperation with Washington would be reviewed.

"The government of Pakistan does not see this drone attack as an attack on an individual but as an attack on the peace process," Khan said.

On Saturday the Taliban has elected Khan Said Sajna aka Khalid as the next leading of the militant group.

Khan Said Sajna aka Khalid has been appointed by the Talibans Shura Council after 43 out of 60 members voted in favor of the second-in-command to replace Mehsud. 17 others voted against him, militant sources told the Pakistani Dawn News newspaper.

However, the election has not yet been confirmed by several splinter groups of the militant organization.

The council was initially considering four names for the post - Khan Said, Umar Khalid Khurasani, Mullah Fazlullah and Ghalib Mehsud.

Not much is known about the Talibans new leading. Sajna, 36, was the South Waziristan Taliban leading and was responsible for TTP operations in the region. He used to be a trusted lieutenant of Mehsud.

Said is believed to have masterminded an attack on a jail in north-west Pakistan that freed nearly 400 prisoners in 2012 and an attack on a Pakistani air force base in the same year.

Sajna has no fundamental education, conventional or religious, but he is battle-hardened and has experience of fighting in Afghanistan, an unnamed official, earlier cited by local Dawn News.

A spokesman for the Taliban in South Waziristan, Azam Tariq, declined to say whether Sajna had been chosen to proceed the TTP umbrella group, the Dawn reports. A formal announcement will be made in the coming days, the spokesman said.

Meanwhile, Pakistani Taliban fighters have vowed a wave of suicide bombs in revenge for the killing of Hakimullah Mehsud.

"Every drop of Hakimullahs blood will turn into a suicide bomber,"
Tariq said. "America and their friends shouldnt be happy because we will take revenge for our martyrs blood."

Mehsud, who had a $5 million US bounty on his head and was believed to be responsible for the deaths of thousands of people, has been secretly buried along with the four others killed - his bodyguard, driver, uncle and a commander, AFP reports referring to a senior Taliban source.

He had been reported dead several times before. In February 2010, multiple sources said he had died after being hit in a drone strike in Pakistan, and in April that year reports that he was alive surfaced. In May 2010, he appeared in a video, vowing attacks on major US cities.

Mehsud became leader of the Pakistani Taliban in 2009, aged 30, after the groups leader Baitullah Mehsud died in a US drone strike in South Waziristan.

Seen as a hardliner, Hakimullah Mehsud supervised some of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistans (TTP) most high-profile attacks. He is said to be behind the attempt to kill schoolgirl education activist, Malala Yousafzai, in October persist year.

Counter-productive killing

Pakistans government has strongly condemned the US drone strike and called it counter-productive.

The killing of Mehsud has cast doubt over proposed peace talks between the Pakistani government and the militant group.

It makes the peace dialogue process with the Taliban difficult. Now that Mehsuds been killed, they wont be prepared to have a dialogue with us any longer. So how can we carry on with it? one of the locals has told the media.

However, the countrys Information Minister gave assurances in a statement that the attack will not delay peace talks.

The US has tried to attack the peace talks with this drone but we will not let them fail," Pervez Rashid told media, referring to the negotiations, which the Taliban said on Friday had yet to start.

In response to the attack local tribesmen opened fire on a US drone over Pakistans tribal belt, where Hakimullah Mehsud was killed.

"Tribesmen and militants were firing with light and heavy guns for an hour," Tariq Khan, a shopkeeper in Miranshah was cited by AFP. "Local people are scared. The death of Hakimullah Mehsud has created uncertainty. Everyone is talking about Taliban revenge," Khan said.



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 Post subject: Pakistan: We Didn"t Unmask CIA Chief
PostPosted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 5:32 pm 
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Islamabad Intel Official Dismisses Speculation U.S. Spy"s Cover Was Blown in Retaliation for Mumbai Terror Attack Lawsuit




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 Post subject: Thousands protest US drone strikes in Pakistan
PostPosted: Mon Dec 02, 2013 1:44 pm 
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Pakistani supporters of the Defence of Pakistan coalition shout slogans and carry placards at an anti-US rally in Lahore on December 1, 2013 (AFP Photo / Arif Ali)

Around 5,000 demonstrators called on the US to immediately stop the drone assaults on the country. The event was organized by the Defence of Pakistan Council, which is comprised of 40 religious and political groups, AFP reported.

Protesters chanted slogans to block NATO supplies being transported to Afghanistan through Pakistan.

Recently, local residents have become more vocal against the US tactics, organizing increasing numbers of rallies. Just over one week ago, thousands of demonstrators protesting US drone strikes in Pakistan blocked a main road in the northern Peshawar province, used to transport NATO supplies to and from Afghanistan.

Pakistans government often speaks out against US drone strikes, heavily criticizing the tactic and calling it a violation of Pakistans sovereignty but critics accuse the government of not actively doing enough to stop the strikes.

The US has also faced significant international pressures on account of its attacks. Amnesty International released a report in October, arguing that the US officials, who are responsible for carrying out the drone strikes, may have to stand trial for war crimes. It also listed extensive civilian casualties in Pakistan. Human Rights Watch has issued a similar report on Yemen.

Despite criticism, the US has carried out hundreds of drone strikes since 2004. In October, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counterterrorism, Ben Emmerson, said that US drone strikes have killed 2,200 in the past decade, 400 of whom were civilians.

Pakistan confirmed that at least 400 civilians had died as a result of remotely piloted aircraft strikes and a further 200 individuals were regarded as probable non-combatants, Emmerson said in an interim report to the UN General Assembly.

Within the last week, one of Pakistans major political parties published the name of what it believed to be the CIAs chief operative in Islamabad, after a US drone strike killed five people the previous week. The group was demanding that the spy chief face murder charges.



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 Post subject: Yemeni parliament votes to ban drone attacks
PostPosted: Mon Dec 16, 2013 7:33 am 
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A tribesman walks near a building damaged last year by a U.S. drone air strike targeting suspected al Qaeda militants in Azan of the southeastern Yemeni province of Shabwa February 3, 2013. (Reutres/Khaled Abdullah)

"Members of parliament voted to pause what drones are doing in Yemeni airspace, stressing the importance of preserving innocent civilian lives against any attack and maintaining Yemeni sovereignty," SABA news agency reported.

The non-binding motion needs to be approved by the president in order to have any political weight. At the moment, the motions passed by the Yemeni parliament are seen as no more than recommendations to the government, Reuters stressed.

Washington has recently increased the intensity of drone strikes in Yemen in an offensive against Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), despite widespread criticism sparked by the fact that strikes are far from surgical.

Yemen is considered to be AQAPs main foothold of what is deemed the most active wing of the militant network.

The success of the US campaign remains a very heated topic of debate. Some argue that the drone strikes put civilian lives in danger, leading to rising casualties, while at the same time increasing sympathy towards AQAP and fostering resentment against the US.

Others feel that the US campaign is needed to eliminate Al-Qaeda. Yemeni Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-Qirbi told Reuters in September that the drone strikes were a "mandatory evil" and a "very borderline affair, that occur only with Yemeni consultation.

The new law comes after 15 people were killed in a Thursday air strike while on their way to a wedding. Local media reported that a drone attack was responsible, stating that the party-goers were hit instead of an Al-Qaeda convoy.

An air strike missed its target and hit a wedding car convoy, ten people were killed immediately and another five who were injured died after being admitted to the hospital, a Yemeni security official told Reuters.

In October, Human Rights Notice (HRW) released a damning report on US drone strikes in Yemen. It described six of some 80 targeted killing operations in the country. In those six attacks, 82 people were killed, 57 of whom - nearly 70 percent - were civilians.

President Obama says the US is doing its utmost to protect civilians from harm in these strikes. Yet in the six cases we examined, at least two were a understandable violation of the laws of war, HRW senior researcher Letta Tayler commented at the time.

In the same month, UN special rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism, Ben Emmerson, said that US drone strikes had killed 2,200 people in Pakistan in the past decade - 400 of whom were civilians and another 200 who were probable non-combatants. Much like Yemen, many within Pakistans population vehemently oppose American drone strikes.



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 Post subject: India, Pakistan Exchange Nuclear Facilities List
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India, Pakistan exchange lists of nuclear facilities, prisoners as part of non-attack pact
    








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 Post subject: New Taliban attack in Pakistan raises fears
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Just a day after three Americans and 18 others were killed in Kabul, more than a dozen Pakistani troops were killed in a fresh attack in Waziristan




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 Post subject: Pakistan Taliban Want Imran Khan as Representative
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Pakistan Taliban want Imran Khan and 4 others as peace talks representatives.
    


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