Tag: Drone

KARACHI - A petition was filed in the Supreme Court on Wednesday pleading the court to restrain drone attacks being carried out by the US inside Pakistan. Human Rights Commission for South Asia representative Syed Muhammad Iqbal Kazmi moved the petition under Article 184(3) of the constitution, which empowers the apex to take action for enforcing fundamental rights of citizens. The petitioner stated that such attacks must be declared illegal and unconstitutional, as the provision of

ISLAMABAD - There is a visible difference in the country's policy on drone attacks and the political and military leadership of the country is on the same page on the matter, Minister for Inter-Provincial Coordination and chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security Mian Raza Rabbani said on Tuesday. He was briefing reporters after an in-camera meeting of the parliamentary committee. "The matter of drone attacks is a sensitive issue and there is a visible difference in

ISLAMABAD - Once in-charge after winning the next general elections, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf would teach the present rulers how to deal with generals and to run the state affairs properly, PTI Chairman Imran Khan said on Tuesday. "We will teach the so-called leaders how to control the generals and also to stop the drone attacks" Imran said at a joint press briefing with the representatives of British human right organization "Reprieve" here at National Press Club. He said the

BEIJING - Drone attacks are causing deaths of hundreds of innocent citizens and had become a serious issue for Pakistan, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif told office-bearers of the Chinese Communist Party on Monday, adding that mistakes of former rulers had turned Pakistan from a land of peace into a hotbed of terrorism. Addressing the event, Shahbaz said every drone attack bred a new batch of terrorists.
Earlier, Shahbaz was accorded a warm welcome by the senior leadership

PESHAWAR - The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assembly Monday through a unanimous resolution denounced US drone attacks in tribal regions and asked for transferring of the drone technology to armed forces of Pakistan. The resolution was moved by Awami National Party parliamentary leader Bashir Ahmad Bilour. Bilour, who also occupies a senior ministry in the cabinet, moved the resolution without taking his colleagues from Pakistan People's Party into confidence.
Expressing sharp reaction,

ISLAMABAD - The Parliamentary committee on national security would finalize strategy and recommendations against US drone strikes in the country's tribal belt today.
The committee would meet under the chairmanship of Senator Mian Raza Rabbani, sources informed Online. During the meeting, matters related to national security and overall law and order situation in the country would be reviewed in length.
State Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has also been summoned to

LAHORE - Dr Fauzia Siddiqi addressed a press conference on Sunday along with Insaaf Student Federation (ISF) President Hassaan Niazi and Ibad-ur-Rehman's brother Sajjad-ur-Rehman, who was killed by a car which had come to help Raymond Davis escape.
Dr Fauzia announced that she would be part of the sit-in against drone attacks. She said that Pakistan's embassy in the United States threatened the lawyer who appealed against Aafia Siddiqi's sentence. Sajjad-ur-Rehman said that the

GUJRANWALA - Gujranwala Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) President Sheikh Sarwat Ikram has condemned continuous drone attacks and termed it major hurdle in the economic growth of the country. While talking to a delegation of local traders, Ikram said Pakistan was being suffered by a so called war on terror imposed on it by America and added that innocent Pakistanis were martyred by Americans for years now. He added that American aggression inside Pakistan was not less than

ISLAMABAD - In a bid to calm down protesting members of parliament (MPs) from the Federal Administrated Tribal Areas (FATA) on successive drone attacks in Waziristan, Prime Minister (PM) Yousaf Raza Gilani on Thursday strongly condemned the drone attacks and termed the attacks a violation of the sovereignty of Pakistan
The PM said such activities were counter-productive to the law enforcement operations against terrorists, miscreants and militants.
Talking to the

ISLAMABAD - Over 900 people were killed due to American Drone attacks in the tribal areas of Pakistan, while as many as 12,580 people were murdered, 581 kidnappings for ransom and 16,977 cases of abduction were also reported, according to Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan in its annual report stated that 957 people were killed due to American Drone attacks in the tribal areas of Pakistan.
The reports which focuses on human rights

ISLAMABAD - Despite a strong protest and clear demands by Pakistan, the US seems to have refused to stop drone strikes in the Tribal Areas as was evident by Wednesday's attack in South Waziristan thus increasing the tensions between Islamabad and Washington and endangering Pakistan-US cooperation in the fight against terrorism.
The CIA has agreed to share some information about its operatives in Pakistan as well as their activities with Pakistani authorities but according to

PESHAWAR - At least six militants were killed and several others injured when a US drone targeted a compound and vehicle in Baghar Camp near Angora Ada in South Waziristan on Wednesday.
Reports from Wana reveal that the US drone fired three missiles on a house, occupied by local and foreign militants, and razed it whereas two vehicles were also damaged. Soon after the missile attack, the site was cordoned off by other militants and they took the bodies and the injured to an

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Wednesday told the National Assembly that diplomatic pressure was being applied on the US to stop drone attacks in the Tribal Areas.
In response to a point of order raised by Leader of the Opposition in the NA Nisar Ali Khan, the prime minister said Pakistan was using diplomatic channels to compel the US to stop drone attacks because they were counter-productive.
He said security forces conducted successful operation against

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that the government was aligned with the US in the drone attacks and was pursuing the policies of former president Pervez Musharraf. He was talking to the media after the 5th annual certificate distribution ceremony of Rangers Institute of Technical Education (RITE) at Pakistan Rangers Headquarters on Wednesday.
The CM said that everyone including the judges and generals should unite against the drone attacks.
He

LAHORE - The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) announced on Wednesday staging a sit-in in Peshawar to stop the NATO supply line on April 23 and 24.
PTI Central Vice President Ejaz Chaudhary, Secretary Information Umer Sarfaraz Cheema and other office-bearers held a press conference and appealed to the public to participate in the sit-in in large numbers. They said that all PTI organizations including Insaf Students Federation have been motivated in this regard.
They also said

ISLAMABAD - Four missiles fired by two U.S. pilotless aircraft struck a moving vehicle in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal region on the Afghan border on Wednesday, killing six militants, residents and officials said.
It is the first strike since March 17, when a similar attack killed 38 suspected militants and drew very rare condemnation from the country's powerful military chief.

WASHINGTON - Pakistan has told the United States to sharply cut the number of CIA agents and special forces operating there, and to rein in drone strikes against militants, a US newspaper said Monday.
The New York Times said the order highlighted the near collapse of US-Pakistani cooperation, the result of a row that erupted when CIA officer Raymond Davis shot and killed two Pakistani men in January.
The authorities in Islamabad were asking a total of about 335 CIA officers,