Pakistan’s court declares US drone strikes as illegal

[Bleipriester]

Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan, who headed a two-judge bench that heard the petitions, ruled the drone strikes were illegal, inhuman and a violation of the UN charter on human rights. The court observed that the strikes must be declared a war crime as they kill innocent people.

"The government of Pakistan must ensure that no drone strike takes place in the future," the court said. It asked the Foreign Ministry to table a resolution against the American attacks in the UN.

"If the US vetoes the resolution, then the country should think about breaking diplomatic ties with the US," the judgment said.
Pakistan?s court declares US drone strikes as illegal

How do you think will the US government react?

 

[Kevin_Kennedy]

Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan, who headed a two-judge bench that heard the petitions, ruled the drone strikes were illegal, inhuman and a violation of the UN charter on human rights. The court observed that the strikes must be declared a war crime as they kill innocent people.

"The government of Pakistan must ensure that no drone strike takes place in the future," the court said. It asked the Foreign Ministry to table a resolution against the American attacks in the UN.

"If the US vetoes the resolution, then the country should think about breaking diplomatic ties with the US," the judgment said.
Pakistan?s court declares US drone strikes as illegal

How do you think will the US government react?

By ignoring it.

 

[Toronado3800]

Pakistan, what a mess.

Personally I think we will basically ignore it. Right or wrong? I dunno. I probably would ignore it or issue some ridiculous ultimatum Pakistan would find unacceptable. Maybe I'd just call them teenage girls who take aid and cheat soon as their boyfriend isn't watching. That would be bound to make friends

What would you do?

 

[germanguy]

Just think we would be in their position.

Pakistanis bombing our wedding parties, killing little children and when criticised just shrugging. It´s war.

Also, just think that fat thai grandpas would fly in, fuck our underaged daughters and sons.
We would work in shitty ratholes and work our fingers sore to produce cheap clothing for sale in supermarkets in China.

"Hm, there will be no oil in the future, what should we put in our tank dear?"
"What about food?"
"But it is their food dear"
"And? It was also their oil..."

 

[germanguy]

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Just try this

 

[Billo_Really]

Just think we would be in their position.

Are you seriously asking a country of narcissists to show empathy towards others?

That's like asking the Virgin Mary to become a hooker?
Or asking Republican's to do something "for" the country?
Or asking the "bagger nation" to vote responsibly?​

Just because we happen to be "illegal aliens" in their country, doesn't mean we have to obey their laws and respect their sovereignty. And besides, everyone knows wedding party's are just a cover for terrorist activities and a threat to our national security.

The drone strikes will end when they stop getting married and threatening our way of life.

 

[namvet]

its obvious their hiding terrorists

 

[ELITEofWarman8]

And like us Americans are going to care ?

 

[whitehall]

No shit? Pakistan politicians must be taking lessons from the Hussein people. Deny and authorize and nobody will be the wiser.

 

[waltky]

Sharif has been a strong critic of the use of drones...

In NW Pakistan, Incoming Gov’t Takes Aim at U.S. Drones
24 May`13 – As President Obama addressed the issue of drone strikes publicly for the first time Thursday, the party set to head the government in the Pakistani province closest to the tribal belt where most of those strikes have occurred said its very first resolution will target the strikes.

Pervez Khattak, the man designated to be chief minister of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province (formerly the North West Frontier Province, or NWFP), said the first resolution to be taken by the province’s new legislative assembly would condemn drone attacks and distance Pakistan “from its alliance with the U.S. in the war on terror.” Khattak belongs to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (“Movement for Justice”), the opposition party which in the May 11 election won the most seats in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and so will govern the province, in coalition with two smaller parties – one Islamist and one Pashtun nationalist. PTI officials told local media the party expects the drone resolution to pass unanimously.

Days before the vote, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) national leader Imran Khan told a campaign rally that if elected, he would order the military to shoot down American drones that enter Pakistani airspace. PTI came in third overall in the national poll, which was won by the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) of Prime Minister-designate Nawaz Sharif. Like Khan, Sharif has been a strong critic of the use of drones – which the outgoing Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) government criticized publicly but covertly consented to – although the PML-N has distanced itself from calls to shoot down the unmanned aircraft.

A PML-N leader, Khawaja Saad Rafique, told reporters that the government would use diplomatic means in a bid to get the U.S. to stop drone strikes. While the Pakistani military was capable of shooting them down, doing so would have an adverse effect on the entire nation, Rafique said. Recent reports by the International Crisis Group and the New America Foundation say there have been 350-355 drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal regions since 2004. According to a New America Foundation database, the number of drone strikes in Pakistan spiked in 2010, reaching 122 that year. Only 12 have been reported this year so far.

Obama in his National Defense University speech Thursday signaled a drawdown in the use of drones, arguing that “the core of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan is on the path to defeat” and saying he wanted to refine and eventually repeal the Authorization to Use Military Force. “Our systematic effort to dismantle terrorist organizations must continue,” he said. “But this war, like all wars, must end. That’s what history advises. That’s what our democracy demands.”

‘Peace’ talks again mulled

 

[Bleipriester]

President Barack Obama on Thursday shifted the United States away from a "boundless global war on terror," restricting deadly drone strikes abroad and signaling that America's long struggle against al Qaeda will one day end.
Obama shifts U.S. from 'perpetual war-footing,' limits drone strikes | Reuters