Comparing PAF sorties with CIA's drone attacks of random people is totally absurd.
PAF is answerable to the Ministry of Defence, which is answerable to the PM. We can fire people from the posts and try them locally if they ever started to kill random people as Obama does (admitted by three dozen white house aides recently).
We have targeted people during ongoing operations and in battlezones. PAF doesn't go about bombing people going about their lives and oh suddenly a missile hits you in the face. Or three guys are doing jumping jacks and they get hit for being suspected to be training militants.
PAF's record is unblemished in the fact that it has followed due process and is answerable to the Parliament, which has its mandate from the people of Pakistan.
To reiterate the most important thing: White house aides have revealed that Obama pretty much targets people randomly.
The NYT article made clear that the new depraved US standard for determining civilian casualties is 'posthumously proving that those who died were civilians'.
How many times has that even happened?
What is the US MO of post attack handling of the media.
US attacks a school
People go like "OMG a school?"
Hillary Clinton calls up Cameron Munter and forces him to declare that 7 out of 10 people killed were militants.
How? 7 of them were adult males which is good enough to be called militants according to the definition of militant that Obama endorsed.
Cameron Munter grudgingly obeys the orders of his superiors.
Every US media outlet is happy once the attack gets Cameron Munter's approval.
How many times has Cameron Munter come on TV to say you know it wasn't 7 out 10 but 6 out of 10.
For that to happen, a guy has to survive the attack. Go through rehabilitation with whatever limbs he has been left with, then travel to Karachi, get the sympathy of some journalist who will highlight his case to the media and then somewhere in their database they might revise 7/10 to 6/10. They still don't go like "Oh we are so sorry for royally screwing up once again, because our President decided its okay to kill all adult males randomly you have to live your life with one less arm".
Its a horrible, horrible situation.