US Drone strikes in Pakistan are illegal under international law.

[Laughing_soldier]

RIP


Pakistan: US triple drone strike 'kills 18'
BBC News - Pakistan: US triple drone strike 'kills 18'

 

[Veeru]

US drone attacks kill "at least 18" in Pakistan

Three suspected U.S. drone attacks have killed at least 18 people in the tribal areas along Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan, local officials say.

The first two drone strikes hit a compound and religious school in the South Waziristan tribal area, Pakistani intelligence officials told Al-Jazeera. The third drone attack hit a vehicle traveling on the border, according to the Associated Press.

Monday’s drone attacks come a day after 18 people died and 40 were wounded in a bomb blast at a bakery in the town of Nowshera in northwest Pakistan.

Earlier that day, a bomb explosion at a bus stop near Peshawar killed six people. The Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for both attacks, Al-Jazeera reports.

Militants have vowed to avenge the death of Osama Bin Laden last month in the Pakistani city of Abbotabad.

The suspected U.S. attacks in Pakistan's troubled tribal region along the Afghan border come just three days after senior Al Qaeda operative Ilyas Kashmiri was reported to have been killed in a U.S. strike in the area.

The drone attacks early Monday took place in a mountainous area near Wana, the main town in the South Waziristan region, according to reports. The number of people killed was not immediately known. Several Arab men were reported to be among those killed, the AP reports.

More than 100 drone attacks were reported last year in the tribal areas along the Afghan-Pakistan border, killing many militants but also hundreds of civilians.

United States officials do not usually confirm that they have carried out an attack. In the past the drone strikes have had the tacit approval of Pakistani authorities, although Pakistani leaders have denied this.

But in recent months, following the U.S. special forces raid that killed Osama bin Laden, senior Pakistani security officials have reportedly been pressing to curb such operations.

Pakistan Attack | Drone Strikes | Waziristan

 

[53fd]

Already posted:

http://www.defence.pk/forums/pakistans-war/112864-us-drone-strikes-kill-18-south-waziristan.html

Can people stop spamming on this forum please?

 

[Nav]

Whole Nation Is Sleeping, and Zardari uncle is getting $$$.

 

[Veeru]

Whole Nation Is Sleeping, and Zardari uncle is getting $$$.

You says whole nation is sleeping while accusimh zardari what about Army?????

Where is the pakistani armed forces Army, PAF, PN and ISI??????

So please don't blame as per agenda its your nation you should be honest with it.

 

[TruthSeeker]

US Predators strike 3 targets in South Waziristan

By Bill Roggio, June 6, 2011

Updated to include new information on strikes and casualties.

Unmanned Predators or the more deadly Reapers launched attacks today in three separate areas of South Waziristan that are under Taliban control. Seven "Punjabi Taliban" terrorists, as well as Arabs, Uzbeks, and a Turk, are reported to be among those killed.

The first strike took place at a compound in Shalam Raghzai in the Wana area of South Waziristan, according to The New York Times. The second strike hit a "suspected militant compound" in Wacha Dana, just seven miles outside of Wana. The third strike hit a vehicle in the village of Darnashtra in the Shawal area.

Eighteen people have been reported killed in the three strikes. No senior Taliban or al Qaeda leaders have been reported killed at this time, but a number of foreigners are said to be among those killed.

"Most of those killed in the drone strikes are said to be foreigners," a Pakistani intelligence official told The New York Times. "Their nationalities are described to be Arabs, Uzbeks and at least one Turk."

Seven "Punjabi Taliban" were said to have been killed in one of the strikes, according to Reuters. The term 'Punjabi Taliban' is used to describe al Qaeda-affiliated terrorists from Pakistani groups such as the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami, and Jaish-e-Mohammed.

Read more: US Predators strike 3 targets in South Waziristan - The Long War Journal

 

[U-571]

there can only be a barbaric indian who can celebrate the death of people

 

[AAtish]

there can only be a barbaric indian who can celebrate the death of people

RIP to the dead..

US is walking towards its demise in near future.. nothing more to say..

 

[temujin]

Fascinating documentary on JSOC (Joint Special Operations Command) operations in Afgahnistan/Pakistan, which incorporates the drone campaign. It explores objectives behind the drone attacks and how they have evolved in recent months in anticipation of US retrenchment from Afghanistan (which explains increase of attacks in Pakistan). It also includes unedited footage of attacks, details of how intelligence is gathered for drone attacks and interviews with several Taliban commanders who are currently being targeted by JSOC.

It is a sober reminder of how the Americans are losing the fight for hearts and minds in Afghanistan and why their campaign is doomed to fail in the long run. It discusses how the current objective of the drone campaign i.e eliminating top as well as middle leadership of Taliban, is counter productive and is storing up trouble for the future.

The programme mentions a shadowy group, KPF, that is said to operate near the border under the auspicies of the CIA and may have been involved in attacks on Pak forces in the past (they appear to consist mainly of non Pashtuns from elsewhere in Afghanistan as the commander was speaking Dari)

The other interesting bit is the interview with a middle level Taliban commander, said to have been conducted at a location just outside Islamabad, and his comments about the level of support the likes of him receive in Pakistan.

Users from outside the UK can use the following proxy to watch the content

https://fishproxy.com/

 

[pakdefender]

just watched it on channel 4 and surprised how freely those foreign generalists are roamng the country and sound like knowing more than ISI. If a generalist can so easily track down a key taliban leader what stops cia from finding him.
he mentioned support from within pakstan and that he can move in and out of the country when he wants.
baffles me why the drones dont kill him.when he is crossing borde and if he really is taliban commander how he is commanding fom outside islamabad?

There are many amongst us who are very fond of over extending ourselves to the any gora that turns up in Pakistan , these days Pakistan is flooded with all kinds of cockroaches from all over the world who are eagerly wanting to destroy Pakistan or get information out of Pakistan to pass on to put us down.
Those Pakistanis who over extend themselves to these goras and feel happy to be invited to their emabssies for dinners and other events are readily blurting out all sorts of information to the foreign journalists and spies without realizing how much damage they are doing to their own country yet these people turn around and ask what’s up with our Pakistan

 

[TruthSeeker]

There are many amongst us who are very fond of over extending ourselves to the any gora that turns up in Pakistan , these days Pakistan is flooded with all kinds of cockroaches from all over the world who are eagerly wanting to destroy Pakistan or get information out of Pakistan to pass on to put us down.
Those Pakistanis who over extend themselves to these goras and feel happy to be invited to their emabssies for dinners and other events are readily blurting out all sorts of information to the foreign journalists and spies without realizing how much damage they are doing to their own country yet these people turn around and ask what’s up with our Pakistan

Gora (racial epithet)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gora (or gaura) is a South Asian adjective for a yellow-skinned or light-brown person, whether Indian, Pakistani or from other regions. The word literally means "white" or "fair-skinned" in Indo-Aryan languages like Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu), and Punjabi.

Although the word distinctly means "yellowish", it is sometimes used informally to include any light-skinned person, whether light-brown, yellow or even white. In place names that date back to the colonial era - there are a number of graveyards in Pakistan such as the Gora Qabristan (the lighter-skinned graveyard) in Peshawar,[1] the Gora Kabrastan in Karachi,[2] as well as one in Chillianwala, the site of a famous battle involving the British East India Company.[3]

According to the Natyasastra, an Indian text, the term refers to "yellowish-reddish".[4] Because of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's explicitly yellow skin, he was termed "Gauranga".[5]

The term gora is often used by British Asians and among English-speaking South Asians in the Subcontinent to refer to white people, the feminine form being gori.[6] The plural term gore is also used to refer to white people of both genders. In this form it has taken on racial connotations so has acquired the status of a slur, though it is not inherently pejorative.

 

[pakdefender]

gora is not a derogatory term , it means white and is used to refer to foreigners.

 

[TruthSeeker]

gora is not a derogatory term , it means white and is used to refer to foreigners.

It is just as derogatory as is Pak"i". You should expunge it from your common speech if you want to be seen as a fair-minded person.

 

[Devil Soul]

US drones using 'deadly chemical materials'
Updated 1 hour ago
TEHRAN: Pakistani physicians and experts reported that the US uses chemical munitions in its drone attacks on the country's civilians, Iranian news agency Fars reported Wednesday.

Given the fact that the Pakistani civilians who have come under the US drone attacks have been afflicted with different skin, optic and respiratory diseases, it can be concluded that Washington is using chemical weapons in its attacks in Pakistan, the physicians said.

"Since the missiles launched by the US drones contain dangerous chemical substances, a large number of the injured people in these attacks cannot be declared as dead or alive since they have been afflicted with complicated diseases due to the deadly chemical materials used in the missiles," a Pakistani physician, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told FNA.

Another physician in one of the biggest hospitals in Peshawar also lamented that there is no complete information about the patients injured in the US drone attacks and transferred to the state hospitals in different cities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
US drones using deadly chemical materials

 

[majesticpankaj]

At least 20 people were killed when a US drone attacked Shawal area of North Waziristan. According to official sources, four missiles were fired from the drone at a compound and a vehicle, killing 20 people instantly. Earlier on Monday, 21 people, believed to be insurgents, were killed when three drone attacks were launched in a single day.


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