It's my first ever reply to any kind of post on this forum. I have been a silent but regular observer of this forum from last few months and never thought to write anything on whatever the topic is.
But today let me write my feelings down here. I couldn't hold myself today. Let me express myself here. Because I believe I'm not a single person, I am representing many common Pakistani voices. So hear me as a common Pakistani.
I'm a simple Pakistani,belongs to lower middle class, a University lecturer, and very patriotic person. Returned from U.K. After getting higher education to serve my country.
I never put my nose on what I don't know that's why I never said a single word ever on this forum.
16-12-2014 APS attack was the worst day of my life but I never gave up on hope, I cried a lot in my room but had high hopes with my nation, political parties, armed forces, judiciary and media houses. I thought we as nation are in a very early stage and we are just as a kid and will grow up stronger. We just need time.
Before that, OBL operation by Americans was very embarrassing for me as I was in UK at that time.
And to be very honest I was never down, I was always optimistic. But for some strange reason, I'm literally depressed since I have heard about this new drone attack news. Not because of Mullah been killed in it. He wasn't my "Mamy da putt" but because of what western powers are doing with us ? What the hell is going on? Who's running our country ? I mean it's totally unbelievable. Are we even a country ? A nation ?
I'm fed up of all this crap. We should have some dignity or its better to die as nation. No point of living this shameful life.
I might sound very emotional but yes I'm saying it right. Are we Nuclear power ???? I'm ashamed for being a Pakistani who got nucks but no balls. I'm ashamed for being bullied by everyone just because we are beggars ???
I'm so stressed and hopeless.
its perfectly right reaction. Here is a column on today's Evening standard asking same question.
Sam Leith: Who’s to blame when we use drones to kill?
So farewell then, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, the
Taliban leader killed in Pakistan on Saturday by a US drone strike. I’m happy to concede that, on the whole, having the leader of the Taliban blown into chunks the size of dry-roasted peanuts may be seen as a boon to the world. But it doesn’t make you an apologist for terrorism to express deep unease about how he came to be that way.
First we had the so-called Bush Doctrine — pithily expressed in the words of 2000AD’s Judge Dredd: “Next time we get our retaliation in first.” We hand-wringing liberal pantywaists expressed reservations at the time about the good sense and legality of this idea. But that was, at least, state to state: it looked a bit like a declaration of war in the old sense. The idea of using drones to kill our individual enemies in the sovereign territory of other nations: that’s something different, and it seems to have gone through on the nod.
That’s an attack by a state on foreign citizens — and pretty much the first job of a government is to protect its citizens against outside powers. Or, to reframe that: if anyone is blowing Pakistani citizens to smithereens, it’s supposed to be the Pakistani government. The old idea is that the contract between citizens and the state gives the latter a monopoly on violence.
To say that the Pakistani government gives the Americans either express or tacit permission to drop bombs on its people, however unsavoury they are, doesn’t quite get us off the hook. (And in this case the Pakistanis are saying pretty firmly that they didn’t.) There’s no obvious legal or political basis for that permission to be given. The monopoly on violence is non-transferable. Pakistani citizens don’t have any sort of relationship with the American state, and the latter isn’t answerable to them.
It’s hard to conceive of a firm legal framework under which it would be. If you’re a Yemeni whose wedding party was blown up in an unfortunate misunderstanding, who do you complain to? Was the murder committed in Yemen, where the bomb landed, in the airspace from which it launched, or in the air-conditioned room in Virginia where the button was pressed? This may make a fine mental workout for theorists of international jurisprudence but it’s not much comfort to the bride and groom.
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Blow to Taliban as leader is killed in US airstrike
To simplify: if the French decided that they didn’t like the look of a man in Luton and dropped a bomb on him, we’d be entitled to be hacked off. And we’d be entitled to be doubly hacked off if our Prime Minister said he’d given them the go-ahead. So for the authorities in Pakistan or Yemen or anywhere else to acquiesce in drone strikes is to delegitimise themselves. It is to appear at best weak and at worst treacherous in the eyes of their own people — with what consequences we have yet to see.
And for those with the drones, it’s a dangerous principle to cede. Once you publicly give yourself permission to kill individuals on the sovereign soil of other states, you’ve sold the pass for good.
The next time Russian boots appear on the ground in Ukraine, for instance, it’ll be a fat lot of good wagging our fingers.
http://www.standard.co.uk/comment/c...lame-when-we-use-drones-to-kill-a3254461.html