Icarus
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Drone strikes occurred in areas where the Pakistani government had lost its writ and sovereignty and thus lacked the capacity to eliminate targets there that were deemed a threat to US national interests. We also did not have the moral grounds or justification to challenge the US solely because of the fact that we could offer them no alternative and neither could we contest that we would apprehend the suspects on their behalf, again due to the fact that we had lost control over these areas to the militants. You will have noticed that whenever we secured a territory from the TTP, the drone strikes also effectively ended due to the fact that priority targets shifted out of the areas and those that remained could be apprehended by our own troops.
So to make it simple, we could not stop drone strikes because they were taking place, effectively, in an area that was not under the sovereign authority of the government of Pakistan. We had neither the military presence nor the legal rationale necessary to do so.
So to make it simple, we could not stop drone strikes because they were taking place, effectively, in an area that was not under the sovereign authority of the government of Pakistan. We had neither the military presence nor the legal rationale necessary to do so.