The present government is seemingly in much more haste then its predecessors to appease the US and implement their agenda,without even considering the impact it will have upon Pakistans image and interest! Giving no heed to the fact that such acts on their part have exposed the innocent FATA people and those of other nations to further hazard,where the US is operating the assassin Drones.Such as Somalia,Yemen etc Next ,I guess would be the arranged release on bail of the traitor Dr.Shakil Afridi through the administrative court ? Utterly disgraceful and highly condemnable action on their part! Figures released by the Government of Pakistan today regarding the number of civilian deaths caused by drone strikes are shown to be inaccurate by a report provided to the courts by Pakistan’s authorities earlier this year, it has emerged. A report submitted to the Peshawar High Court in early 2013 by the Political Agents of North Waziristan – the central Government’s representative in the region – stated that 896 Pakistani civilians had been killed in drone strikes in the area in the last five years. The court also found that a further 553 civilians were killed in South Waziristan over the same period. However, according to the Associated Press, the Ministry of Defense today claimed that just 67 civilians have been killed by drone strikes in Pakistan since 2008, and none at all in 2012 or 2013. The claim of no civilian casualties at all in 2012 is especially problematic, as the relatives of a 67-year-old grandmother killed in an October 2012 drone strike yesterday testified before the US Congress. Rafiq ur Rehman, a primary school teacher from North Waziristan, told members of Congress how his mother, Mammana Bibi, was killed in the strike, which also injured two of his children who testified with him at the briefing: Zubair (13) and Nabila (9). There are several other strikes in 2012 which killed civilians and have been widely reported by independent sources: two such strikes were in July 2012, where rescue workers were targeted, killing more than 20 civilians. These strikes were also profiled in a recent report by human rights organization Amnesty International. globalresearch.ca/pakistan-government-coverup-of-us-war-crimes-release-of-inaccurate-figures-on-drone-victims/5356226
Posted on: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 11:08:11 +0000
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