Comments on: Pakistanis are STILL Dying: For What? For Whom? Why? http://imranhkhan.com/2010/03/07/pakistanis-are-dying-for-what-for-whom-why/ Technology's Impact & Human Affairs Thu, 03 May 2012 15:07:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Imran http://imranhkhan.com/2010/03/07/pakistanis-are-dying-for-what-for-whom-why/comment-page-1/#comment-165 Imran Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:13:33 +0000 http://imranhkhan.com/?p=590#comment-165 US experts question the legality of Drone strikes in Pakistan. http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/06-us-experts-raise-legal-questions-over-drone-strikes-rs-02 David Glazier, a professor from Loyola law school in Los Angeles, California, warned that “a<strong>ny CIA personnel who participate in this armed conflict run the risk of being prosecuted under the national laws of the places where [the combat actions] take place</strong>.” CIA personnel, he said, could be guilty of war crimes US experts question the legality of Drone strikes in Pakistan.

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David Glazier, a professor from Loyola law school in Los Angeles, California, warned that “any CIA personnel who participate in this armed conflict run the risk of being prosecuted under the national laws of the places where [the combat actions] take place.” CIA personnel, he said, could be guilty of war crimes

]]> By: imran http://imranhkhan.com/2010/03/07/pakistanis-are-dying-for-what-for-whom-why/comment-page-1/#comment-139 imran Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:34:42 +0000 http://imranhkhan.com/?p=590#comment-139 Robert Fiske wrote this about the drones effecting Pakistanis psychology ".. I am sitting in a modest downstairs apartment in the old British cantonment. A young Peshawar journalist sits beside me, talking in a subdued but angry way, as if someone is listening to us, about the pilotless American aircraft which now slaughter by the score – or the four score – along the Afghanistan border. "I was in Damadola when the drones came. They killed more than 80 teenagers – all students – and, yes they were learning the Koran, and the madrasah, the Islamic school, was run by a Taliban commander. But 80! Many of them came from Bajaur, which would be attacked later. Their parents came afterwards, all their mothers were there, but the bodies were in pieces. There were so many children, some as young as 12. We didn't know how to fit them together." The reporter – no name, of course, because he still has to work in Peshawar – was in part of the Bajaur tribal area, to cover negotiations between the government and the Taliban. "The drones stayed around for about half an hour, watching," he says. "Then two Pakistani helicopter gunships came over. Later, the government said the helicopters did the attack. But it was the drones." The drones – Predators and Reapers, or "Shadows", as the Americans call them when they follow US troops into battle – have acquired mythical proportions in the minds of Pakistanis, a form of spaceship colonialism, imperialism from the sky, caught with literary brilliance by A H Khayal in the daily newspaper The Nation, when he asked where the drones come from: "The masses are piteously ignorant. They just don't know that the drones are not material creatures. Actually, they are spiritual beings. They don't need earthly runways for taking off... They live in outer space, beyond the international boundaries of Afghanistan and Pakistan. "When they feel hungry, they swoop down and kill innocent Afghani women and children. They eat the corpses and fly back to their spacial residences for a siesta. When they again feel hungry, they again swoop down and kill another lot of innocent women and children. Having devoured the dead bodies, they fly back to their bedrooms in space. It has been going on and on like this for years." Robert Fiske wrote this about the drones effecting Pakistanis psychology
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I am sitting in a modest downstairs apartment in the old British cantonment. A young Peshawar journalist sits beside me, talking in a subdued but angry way, as if someone is listening to us, about the pilotless American aircraft which now slaughter by the score – or the four score – along the Afghanistan border. “I was in Damadola when the drones came. They killed more than 80 teenagers – all students – and, yes they were learning the Koran, and the madrasah, the Islamic school, was run by a Taliban commander. But 80! Many of them came from Bajaur, which would be attacked later. Their parents came afterwards, all their mothers were there, but the bodies were in pieces. There were so many children, some as young as 12. We didn’t know how to fit them together.”

The reporter – no name, of course, because he still has to work in Peshawar – was in part of the Bajaur tribal area, to cover negotiations between the government and the Taliban. “The drones stayed around for about half an hour, watching,” he says. “Then two Pakistani helicopter gunships came over. Later, the government said the helicopters did the attack. But it was the drones.”

The drones – Predators and Reapers, or “Shadows”, as the Americans call them when they follow US troops into battle – have acquired mythical proportions in the minds of Pakistanis, a form of spaceship colonialism, imperialism from the sky, caught with literary brilliance by A H Khayal in the daily newspaper The Nation, when he asked where the drones come from: “The masses are piteously ignorant. They just don’t know that the drones are not material creatures. Actually, they are spiritual beings. They don’t need earthly runways for taking off… They live in outer space, beyond the international boundaries of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

“When they feel hungry, they swoop down and kill innocent Afghani women and children. They eat the corpses and fly back to their spacial residences for a siesta. When they again feel hungry, they again swoop down and kill another lot of innocent women and children. Having devoured the dead bodies, they fly back to their bedrooms in space. It has been going on and on like this for years.”

]]> By: Mallick http://imranhkhan.com/2010/03/07/pakistanis-are-dying-for-what-for-whom-why/comment-page-1/#comment-128 Mallick Mon, 29 Mar 2010 07:25:18 +0000 http://imranhkhan.com/?p=590#comment-128 It is unfortunate that innocent people are being killed on a daily bases but that is the price a society has to pay where people put religion above human beings and refuse to accept inevitable human evolution, which is bound to happen. people in that region are fighting against nature and trying to hold the time still which is impossible hence the loss of human lives. how hard it is to understand for a human being that mankind has to progress, it is ABSOLUTELY impossible to keep living in the 7th century and expect others (who have moved on and improved human conditions to prove the worthiness of human beings) to wait for them and even respect them for their stupid ideologies. Again it is unfortunate that it is happening on this planet. It is unfortunate that innocent people are being killed on a daily bases but that is the price a society has to pay where people put religion above human beings and refuse to accept inevitable human evolution, which is bound to happen. people in that region are fighting against nature and trying to hold the time still which is impossible hence the loss of human lives. how hard it is to understand for a human being that mankind has to progress, it is ABSOLUTELY impossible to keep living in the 7th century and expect others (who have moved on and improved human conditions to prove the worthiness of human beings) to wait for them and even respect them for their stupid ideologies. Again it is unfortunate that it is happening on this planet.

]]> By: imran http://imranhkhan.com/2010/03/07/pakistanis-are-dying-for-what-for-whom-why/comment-page-1/#comment-126 imran Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:57:22 +0000 http://imranhkhan.com/?p=590#comment-126 Yet another news relating to the illegality and I would say criminality of CIA's Undeclared war on Pakistan. http://www.linkedin.com/news?viewArticle=&articleID=117645422&gid=115534&articleURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spacedaily.com%2Freports%2FUS_drone_raids_could_land_CIA_officers_in_court_expert_999.html&urlhash=Br1q&trk=news_discuss Yet another news relating to the illegality and I would say criminality of CIA’s Undeclared war on Pakistan.

http://www.linkedin.com/news?viewArticle=&articleID=117645422&gid=115534&articleURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spacedaily.com%2Freports%2FUS_drone_raids_could_land_CIA_officers_in_court_expert_999.html&urlhash=Br1q&trk=news_discuss

]]> By: Izaz Haque http://imranhkhan.com/2010/03/07/pakistanis-are-dying-for-what-for-whom-why/comment-page-1/#comment-125 Izaz Haque Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:51:40 +0000 http://imranhkhan.com/?p=590#comment-125 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/24/drone-wars-without-any-ru_n_511056.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/24/drone-wars-without-any-ru_n_511056.html

]]> By: Imran http://imranhkhan.com/2010/03/07/pakistanis-are-dying-for-what-for-whom-why/comment-page-1/#comment-108 Imran Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:56:01 +0000 http://imranhkhan.com/?p=590#comment-108 The main point that I am making is that there is the right way to conduct a military action against the criminals in FATA, and then there is a criminal way to conduct it. Firing missiles into the houses of people from 10000 feet on a suspicion is a criminal way of conducting it. The main point that I am making is that there is the right way to conduct a military action against the criminals in FATA, and then there is a criminal way to conduct it. Firing missiles into the houses of people from 10000 feet on a suspicion is a criminal way of conducting it.

]]> By: Inam http://imranhkhan.com/2010/03/07/pakistanis-are-dying-for-what-for-whom-why/comment-page-1/#comment-103 Inam Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:23:38 +0000 http://imranhkhan.com/?p=590#comment-103 Very good. But the govt is heavily committed to so called US anti terrorism War. But in fact Israel through USA have nefarious designs of totally eliminating or rolling back nuclear capability of the only Muslim country - totally unacceptable to Israel. US war in Afghanistan has compelled our leaders to own it and term it as our own cause - utter nonsense. People are not aware of huge US Shamsi Base at Dalbandin Balochistan next to Chagai, our nuclear testing facility. Other motive for USA is to monopolize oil and other mineral riches of Balochistan, Afghanistan and central Asia, at the same time denying these to Russia and China in particular. India is a willing collaborator in this scheme. Through chicanery many Afghans,mostly non pathans, are pro India. Very good. But the govt is heavily committed to so called US anti terrorism War. But in fact Israel through USA have nefarious designs of totally eliminating or rolling back nuclear capability of the only Muslim country – totally unacceptable to Israel. US war in Afghanistan has compelled our leaders to own it and term it as our own cause – utter nonsense. People are not aware of huge US Shamsi Base at Dalbandin Balochistan next to Chagai, our nuclear testing facility. Other motive for USA is to monopolize oil and other mineral riches of Balochistan, Afghanistan and central Asia, at the same time denying these to Russia and China in particular. India is a willing collaborator in this scheme. Through chicanery many Afghans,mostly non pathans, are pro India.

]]> By: Izaz Haque http://imranhkhan.com/2010/03/07/pakistanis-are-dying-for-what-for-whom-why/comment-page-1/#comment-95 Izaz Haque Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:21:46 +0000 http://imranhkhan.com/?p=590#comment-95 very nice, Imran. The people of the tribal areas continue to go through hell, no less a consequence of actions of their leaders, the US, and the Pakistani government. Unfortunately, there's no end in sight either. People have to speak up for those than cannot speak for themselves. It's great that someone is highlighting their plight. Regards, Izaz very nice, Imran.

The people of the tribal areas continue to go through hell, no less a consequence of actions of their leaders, the US, and the Pakistani government.

Unfortunately, there’s no end in sight either. People have to speak up for those than cannot speak for themselves. It’s great that someone is highlighting their plight.

Regards, Izaz

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