The firing continued U.S. drone in Pakistan

Three insurgents were killed this Thursday, October 31 by firing U.S. drone in Pakistan on the border with Afghanistan, one given by the Pakistani secret service information.These are the first shots of drones since the visit of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in Washington last week, a visit during which he had yet asked solemnly stop the shooting at the American ally.

As expected, Barack Obama has absolutely not complied with the demands of Nawaz Sharif who had asked him last Wednesday, during their meeting at the White House, stopping the firing drones that have been estimated in ten years 2000 3 000 dead. Enhanced by the publication of a UN report stressing that the shooting had killed at least 400 civilians, and another report calls this time of Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, published on the eve of the meeting Obama / Sharif, who asked the secret from these attacks to determine whether they violate international law.

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But the position is very firm wanted the Prime Minister of Pakistan has been significantly weakened by an article in the Washington Post noting that Islamabad supported for years in fact covertly these American attacks.

Why these shots

For ten years, the United States conducting firing drones on Pakistani territory in the tribal areas near the border with Afghanistan, to kill Taliban leaders. And according to the article in the Washington Post , the U.S. Secret Service, who sponsor these attacks in recent years have “normalized” the shots as they seek only more Taliban leaders but also ordinary fighters. These shots have also increased significantly since the arrival of Barack Obama in power, with nothing for the year 2010, 117 attacks according to the newspaper.

So why Islamabad condemns he regularly fire the country since September 11, 2001 is an ally against terrorism in the region? Especially since the attacks of bloody Taliban not only Afghanistan but Pakistan. In fact, Pakistani leaders believe that the strikes violate the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country. And they may well be ” accurate “(to believe the Americans who still repeated during the trip of Nawaz Sharif), they also kill civilians to believe Islamabad, 2200 people were killed in ten years, among them more than 400 civilians … The firing drones are far from popular ones among Pakistanis.

Double talk

All Pakistani leaders condemn so many years these shots: Nawaz Sharif has also talked a lot about drones during his election campaign last May, which enabled him, without too much typing on U.S. ally, to go into the sense of his constituents (the Pakistanis are very anti-American). And finally he was elected.

But that speech Pakistani leaders would only policy. For all: Experts for years, there is a tacit agreement on the strikes between the two countries. On October 24, in a well-researched article, the Washington Post even claimed that the agreement was not actually implied that the two countries communicate regularly on these strikes, and sometimes indicated Islamabad Americans the targets aim. An article disastrous for Nawaz Sharif, published the same day he met with Barack Obama, whom he would ask to stop these attacks.

Well practice strikes

According to a researcher at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Inalco) Abu Maryam Zaab if both countries agree on this issue is that for several years the Pakistani Taliban (the Haqqani group based in areas tribal north-west of the country) lead to extremely violent attacks in Pakistan – in six years they have killed more than 5,000 people.And Islamabad knows that if his army attack itself bases, attacks will increase.

Moreover, the Americans, and they are not the only ones to suspect that part of the Pakistani military of having links with the Taliban, it would count use in Afghanistan after the departure of the Americans late 2014. She would use it already, including to counter Indian interests – India is sixty years the great obsession of Pakistani leaders. Hence the desire of a part of the army not to attack the Taliban, at least not herself.

A request for the form?

Nawaz Sharif did he therefore made the request for the form? Note that the documents published by the Washington Post , Pakistani and U.S. documents referring to an agreement on the firing drones, do not run that from 2007 to late 2011: Nawaz Sharif is not involved in the investigation, is in power since May 2013. Moreover, Pakistani Foreign Minister explains that ” whatever the operation in the past , “the new government wants to stop strikes … An implied at least talking.

In any case, whatever the point of view of Pakistani leaders past, present or future, the Americans did not visibly offended that repeated application of its ally Pakistan to immediately stop its strikes, the two countries are still allies, Washington has allocated financial support provided over several years to Islamabad, and continues as if nothing was his firing drones.

The firing continued U.S. drone in Pakistan