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Last publicly reported drone strike was one month ago
By Paul D. Shinkman
May 19, 2013 “Information Clearing House” -“USA Today“- The skies over Pakistan have remained conspicuously clear during the recent election season, according experts on drone strikes in that part of the world.
The last recorded U.S. drone strike in or near Pakistan occurred on April 17, open source data indicates, or roughly a month before the Pakistani election that reestablished Nawaz Sharif as prime minister for the third time.
Specifics of this notoriously reclusive drone program remain top secret within the U.S. military and intelligence communities, though experts on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles and Pakistani politics say the U.S. has likely eased up on the joystick for what has become a popular local talking point.
“Every drone strike is a little bit of gasoline on a fire,” says Karl Kaltenthaler, a professor at The University of Akron and expert on drone strikes in Pakistan.
“There was a lot of discussion during the election about Pakistani sovereignty, about standing up, particularly to the United States over the drone strikes in the FATA,” he says of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas in northwestern Pakistan along the Afghan border. This tribal region is home to much of the Pakistani Taliban, and is predominantly Pashtun.
One of the more vocal candidates in the recent election, former cricketer Imran Khan, is himself of Pashtun descent and used U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan as a favorite populist and anti-American talking point.
Khan said earlier in May he would “end the system of American slavery” in Pakistan.
“We were not trying to get directly involved in the election, which would be radioactive,” said Kaltenhaler. “But drone strikes would just be fuel on the fire.”
Drone strikes in this region are largely carried out by Air Force pilots using CIA information, though no public records exist of this activity. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the Long War Journal document drone strikes through public information.
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Did U.S. Assist In Nawaz Sharif Re-election By Pausing Drone Attacks On Pakistan?
Last publicly reported drone strike was one month ago
By Paul D. Shinkman
May 19, 2013 “Information Clearing House” -“USA Today“- The skies over Pakistan have remained conspicuously clear during the recent election season, according experts on drone strikes in that part of the world.
The last recorded U.S. drone strike in or near Pakistan occurred on April 17, open source data indicates, or roughly a month before the Pakistani election that reestablished Nawaz Sharif as prime minister for the third time.
Specifics of this notoriously reclusive drone program remain top secret within the U.S. military and intelligence communities, though experts on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles and Pakistani politics say the U.S. has likely eased up on the joystick for what has become a popular local talking point.
“Every drone strike is a little bit of gasoline on a fire,” says Karl Kaltenthaler, a professor at The University of Akron and expert on drone strikes in Pakistan.
“There was a lot of discussion during the election about Pakistani sovereignty, about standing up, particularly to the United States over the drone strikes in the FATA,” he says of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas in northwestern Pakistan along the Afghan border. This tribal region is home to much of the Pakistani Taliban, and is predominantly Pashtun.
One of the more vocal candidates in the recent election, former cricketer Imran Khan, is himself of Pashtun descent and used U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan as a favorite populist and anti-American talking point.
Khan said earlier in May he would “end the system of American slavery” in Pakistan.
“We were not trying to get directly involved in the election, which would be radioactive,” said Kaltenhaler. “But drone strikes would just be fuel on the fire.”
Drone strikes in this region are largely carried out by Air Force pilots using CIA information, though no public records exist of this activity. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the Long War Journal document drone strikes through public information.
Posted by Nayyer Naqvi in ATTACK ON ARY TV BY CJ CHAUDHRY & PML(N) RANA SANULLA on August 26th, 2013
PPP MPA’s say PML-N has not been implementing court decisions. PHOTO: TMN/FILE
LAHORE: It was Shaukat Mehmood Basra’s day at the Punjab Assembly on Friday.
The PPP deputy parliamentary leader kept criticising the Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP), Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, before and during the session, for what he saw as his partiality towards the Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML-N).
The House – that met for only two hours on Friday – did not take up any business on the agenda except for the Question Hour.
Shaukat Mehmood Basra, on a point of order, said that the CJP had constituted a commission last year to probe an alleged conspiracy to kill the then chief justice of the Lahore High Court Khawaja Muhammad Sharif. “It’s been eights months since its recommendations were sent but the government has not implemented any of them,” Basra said.
The deputy parliamentary leader said that the PPP leaders had cooperated with the commission “even though charges against them were meant only to malign them”.
Among other things, the commission had recommended that secretary to the chief minister Dr Touqeer Shah should be removed from office.
“But Shah is still serving,” Basra said.
The PPP member also said that those involved in the conspiracy still enjoying protocol and official residences. “I ask the chief justice of Pakistan: is Shahbaz Sharif guilty of contempt of court? Sharif should be sent a notice for failing to implement the recommendations,” Basra said.
Basra’s tirade was interrupted by PML-N’s Waris Khan Kallu who said, “It is the PPP that defies court rulings; the latest example being the NRO verdict”.
Earlier, talking to reporters he had said that CJP Chaudhry gave relief to the PML-N because Rana Sanaullah was his cousin.
PML-N’s Rana Tajammul Hussain and PML-Q’s Sardar Mohsin Khan Leghari were stopped by the chair, Rana Muahammad Iqbal, from discussing the surrender of Pakistani forces in Dhaka in 1971.
Question Hour
Members’ questions about the Home Department were answered by Rana Sanaullah.
The Question Hour proceedings became quite heated when Sanaullah, while replying to a question, said that honest officials had been appointed to police stations.
At this, Basra remarked, “If the law minister says the police are honest then he is lying.”
The PPP leader then said that the police and the Punjab government were looting the public together.
Sanaullah retaliated by attacking the PPP, “Compared with PPP’s corrupt leaders [Punjab] Police are innocent.”
The session was adjourned till 3pm on Monday. Speaker Rana Muahammad Iqbal also directed Law Minister Rana Sanaullah to ensure the presence of all ministers in the House on Monday.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 17th, 2011.
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