General Kayani stop the drones or face treason charges

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General Kayani stop the drones or face treason charges
Posted on 22 April 2011. Tags: al-Qaeda, Central Intelligence Agency, Government of Pakistan, International Institute for Strategic Studies, Pakistan, Pakistan Army, Pakistani Armed Forces, United States

Come clean! General Kayani must answer these questions. Image via Wikipedia

The US is offering about 80 mini-drones to Pakistan–which can be used for reconnaissance operations. The Pentagon’s budget for drones is now $4.8 billion, and its long term vision is to increase the number of drones from 50 in 2010 to 65 by 2015. America is now considering using the drones in Libya also. There is tremendous opposition in Pakistan to the drones. David Ignatius a well respected journalist writing an OpEd column in the Washington Post has opposed the use of drones in Pakistan and in Libya. “Washington now faces the possibility of losing its bases from which the drones take off and land”. This was revealed by Douglas Barrie, a senior fellow for military aerospace at the IISS. His responses are very enlightening. He says that “If the question is ‘Would losing basing in Pakistan cripple operations against al Qaeda?’ the answer is ‘no.’ It would, however, increase the demand on unmanned vehicles. You would likely need more unmanned aerial vehicles to sustain the same number of orbits because of having to transit further distances.”

The revelation by Barries raises a lot of questions for the Pakistani military–which has apparently been complicit in the bombing. The Wikileaks provided ample evidence that the highest echelons of the government was involved in the drones bombings. Shafqat Mahmoud writing for the news says “The drone attacks have been going on for a long time. There is sufficient evidence that successive Pakistani governments have acquiesced, if not facilitated them. Claims are even made that Pakistani airbases are used for them, obviously with the approval of our defence establishment. Why have these attacks now become such a big issue?”.

Those who allow the drones attacks to continue are guilty of treason and should be tried as traitors to the country. The murder of every civilian that has died in drone attacks can be attributed to the compliant acquiescence of the head of the Army, the ISI and those that live in the president house.

The New America Foundation reveals that there have been 234 drone strikes (250-knot Reaper and the 100-knot Predator) in northwest Pakistan since 2004, which have “killed approximately between 1,439 and 2,290 individuals, of whom around 1,149 to 1,829 were described as militants in reliable press accounts.”

General Kayani, you have blood on your hands–the blood of Pakistanis. Stop the drones!

The Washington Times, a d right wing newspaper of DC reports that “U.S. military forces will still be able to target Al Qaeda terrorists in mountainous Southwest Asia with remotely piloted drones based in Afghanistan should Pakistan’s government deny the use of its territory to launch attacks.” The reports explores alternatives for the US Army and the CIA, in case the Pakistanis really disallow America the rights to bomb Pakistani civilians.

The evidence is seeping in. The Americans are exploring new avenues for surveillance, which seem to suggest that the present policy cannot be continued.

◦A senior U.S. official said in response Wednesday that “despite Pakistani rhetoric to the contrary, there are no significant changes to how either side does business.”
◦American officials said Pakistan’s leadership has not denied the U.S. the right to use the country’s airspace, though if airspace is denied, Col. Bushey said, the U.S. has other means of surveillance.
◦“If we were politically unable to fly over their airspace, then we would have to come up with other means of surveillance. Obviously, aircraft is not the only means of surveillance,” he said at the conference.
◦The prospect of reducing the U.S. intelligence footprint in Pakistan is nonetheless worrying to some U.S. officials.
◦Two U.S. intelligence officials told the Times on Wednesday that contractors would still be needed on the ground to help acquire targeting information for the Predator and Reaper drones.
We believe that Pakistan can stop the drone strikes instantly. The Pakistani military brass has to come clean. It has to clearly explain to the Pakistani people what it is doing and why. Despite the high sounding rhetoric General Kayani must answer these questions:

1.If the Pakistani Army really wants to stop the drone strikes why doesn’t it deny the US the use of its airspace?
2.Where are the drones taking off from and where do they land?
3.Why does the ISI allows the local CIA operatives to get into FATA and leave electronic breadcrumbs which allow the drones to target Pakistanis.
4.Senator Boxer and Secretary of State Clinton have said that the government of Pakistan allows the drone strikes. Who is lying?
The statements of Col. Dean Bushey, deputy director of the Army’s Joint Unmanned Aircraft Systems Center of Excellence are poignant. He informed an international-relations conference Wednesday that U.S. Reaper and Predator aircraft could still reach the “mountainous regions” of Pakistan without being based in that country. The statement is important because it describes two things—first, it says that the US drones can bomb Pakistanis with impunity because the CIA has permission to fly over Pakistani territory–second the US is now facing the heat and exploring ways of continuing the drone strikes and “surveillance” wihtout the help and assistance of the Pakistanis.

◦“Our assets from Afghanistan have a long enough flight time to do it,” he told the conference, sponsored by the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
◦Pakistan’s leadership last week demanded that the CIA provide more information on covert operations in their country and demanded that all military contractors leave, according to Pakistani and U.S. news reports.
◦The drone strikes have been controversial in Pakistan because some raids have inadvertently killed civilians. Al Qaeda, other terrorist groups and their political allies have used the casualties to put pressure on the Pakistani government to halt the attacks.
◦“We would like to put an end to drone missions in Pakistan in general,” a Pakistani military official told The Times. “If there is a compelling reason for a drone strike, Pakistan should be asked to do it themselves. We have the same enemy we are fighting.”
◦Drones are a key part of Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates’ strategy of focusing on counterterrorism and counterinsurgency, rather than large, conventional conflicts between uniformed armies.
Admiral Mullen plays the good cop, and General Petraus plays the bad cop. The end result is the same–the drone bombings continue, and even very pro-army journals in the country are now turning against those who allow the bombings to continue.

Gneral Kayani–stop the drones.

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

It is easy to say and demand.

It is another thing to face reality and find out the best solution.

It is unfair to Kiyani or even to the Govt.

How to they know that the mini drones are not to be used elsewhere?

 

[Imran Khan]

he smoke and forget this news hahahaha as he do same before.

 

[Leader]

its good to have these types of articles more and more..

 

[khurasaan1]

My sixth sense is suggesting that the drones will be forced to get stopped...Insha-Allah...

 

[t-birds]

US to use Afghanistan as base for drone attacks in Pak

US is shifting its terror-killer drones from Pakistan to Afghanistan after Islamabad asked it to shut down UAV bases on its territory, but America has vowed to continue hitting militants based in Pakistan's tribal areas.

Pakistan has asked CIA to remove its personnel from the Shamsi airbase, about 350 kms southwest of Baluchistan's capital Quetta, where some of the drones are based, 'New York Times' reported quoting senior American officials.

As tensions mount between the two nations, 'The Times' said the appointment of General David H Petraeus as America's top spy chief could further inflame relations as Pakistan military does not regard him as a "friend".

The usually secretive Kayani, has made little secret of his distaste for Petraeus, calling him a political general.

Petraeus has privately expressed outrage at what American officials say is the Pakistani main spy agency's most blatant support yet for fighters based in Pakistan who are carrying out attacks against American troops in Afghanistan.

Repairing the frayed ties between the CIA and Pakistan's military-run agency, ISI, will be difficult, American officials say.

"In its current form, the relationship is almost unworkable," said Dennis C Blair, a former American director of national intelligence. "There has to be a major restructuring. The ISI jams the CIA all it wants and pays no penalties."

"The relationship between the two countries is very tense right now," said Representative William M Thornberry of Texas, a senior Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, who visited Pakistan last week.

"And the Pakistan government fuels the anti-American public opinion to increase pressure on us." Newly disclosed documents obtained by WikiLeaks have also stoked tensions. One of them, from the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, lists the ISI along with numerous militant groups as allies of Al Qaeda and the Taliban, an indication of how deep American suspicions run when it comes to Pakistani intelligence.

The drone campaign, which the CIA has run against militants in Pakistan's tribal areas since 2004, will now become the preserve of General Petraeus, and it has moved to center stage, at least for the Pakistanis.

A former Pakistani general who speaks to Kayani said he believed that the Pakistan army's leader had concluded that the drone campaign should end because it hurt the army's reputation among the Pakistani public. Those being killed by the drones are of mid-level or even lesser importance, the general said.

The Americans say the drones are more important than ever as a tool to stanch the flow of Taliban foot soldiers coming across the border to fight American and NATO forces.

That the Pakistan army still maintains links with militants was on full display last week in Wana, the main town of South Waziristan, according to a local resident.

There, militants loyal to Maulvi Nazir, a Taliban leader who maintains a peace agreement with the Pakistani military and whose forces often cross into Afghanistan, showed high morale and were moving around freely in front of the Pakistani Army, the resident said. "It looked," he said, "as though the army was giving them a free hand."
"The withdrawal has not occurred but is expected soon," the official said adding that the drone attacks would then be flown out of Afghanistan where some of them are already based.

But even after shifting, the Predators and Reapers, top US military commander, Admiral Mike Mullen, in a private meeting in Islamabad last week told Pakistan's powerful army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani that CIA would not reduce the drone strikes until Pakistan launched a military operation against the Haqqani network in North Waziristan.

 

[Jhonka]

I feel another follower of Musharaf (traitor) in the face of Kayani, who is just waiting for his ticket to come for him to fly to UK or miami.

A good saying I remember now:
Barking dogs seldom bite...

 

[I M Sikander]

Tauba Tauba how dare you bloody civilians.

How dare you people question the boss of Holy cows (PA). Drone strike in Pakistan are classic example of (PAK ARMY-AMERICA) notorious relations.

On one hand our military establishment is doing drama of NATO supply closure, on the other hand, about a dozen flights are daily going from Shahbaz air base to Afghanistan.

 

[I M Sikander]

My sixth sense is suggesting that the drones will be forced to get stopped...Insha-Allah...

Vow you are talking about sixth sense, I wish the men in uniform had some sort of sense, atleast the most common one, "common sense".


Jiss din Aaqal Butt rehi thi, on that day
All our military pandaits were on duty.