A North Waziristan tribesman, whose brother and teenage son were killed in a drone strike last year, said on Monday that he would sue all those US officials supposedly in control of the predator’s operations in Pakistan.
Karim Khan, a local journalist from Mirali town of the lawless tribal district, had sent a $500 million claim for damages to the US Defence Secretary Robert Gates, CIA chief Leon Panetta and its station head in Islamabad Jonathan Banks.
Speaking to the media at the capital’s press club, Khan said he would move courts to file criminal and civil suits against these individuals if they did not respond to his claim within 14 days.
Karim lost his brother Asif Iqbal, an English teacher at a local school, when a pilotless predator fired missiles on his house and the adjacent hujra (Pukhtuns’ outhouse for guests) on December 31, 2009.
Karim lost his brother Asif Iqbal, an English teacher at a local school, when a pilotless predator fired missiles on his house and the adjacent hujra (Pukhtuns’ outhouse for guests) on December 31, 2009.
Karim Khan’s 18-year-old son, Zaheenullah, a government employee in Mirali school, was also among those who were killed in the attack.
Khan has been approaching local and American authorities stationed in Islamabad since last year to seek justice for himself and for those who have also lost the battle for their lives in drone attacks.
He told journalists that CIA Islamabad’s chief Jonathan Banks buys information from his local agents in the area to guide the drone strike.
However, he added that this information is wrong and misleading in most occasions causing the deaths of many innocent tribesmen.
The step was taken by Khan days after it was reported that US officials sought permission from the Pakistani military and political leadership to expand drone operations to Balochistan, a province where they believed the top guns of the Afghan Taliban were hiding.
Pakistan’s military and diplomatic authorities have time and again rejected the US demand of expanding its drone strikes to parts of Balochistan, including its capital Quetta.
In the past, the CIA has blamed its Pakistani counterpart, the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), for harboring the Afghan Taliban in parts of Balochistan which border Kandahar in Afghanistan, the militia’s stronghold.
Pakistani authorities have said that an expansion of drone attacks to Balochistan would destabilise the country and may lead to tensions between Islamabad and Washington.
Pakistani authorities have said that an expansion of drone attacks to Balochistan would destabilise the country and may lead to tensions between Islamabad and Washington.
EID MUBARAK HOO….CAUTION:– IF WORLD-MUSLIMS ALLOW PAKISTANIS TO RUN THE AFFAIRS OF MUSLIMS AROUND THE WORLD, THEN, DAY MARKING THE END OF ISLAM IS NOT TOO FAR.
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TRUTH and SELF-REALIZATION:–Mushrraf persuaded me to operate an anti-India propaganda website then and he told me that ISI will pay the expenses once every 6 months. Because of him I started Rupeenews and many other websites under various names of cities of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. First year ISI paid me money for my work of writing fake anti-India articles but now it stopped paying suddenly. When I contacted Mushrraf, he told me to contact ISI Afghan branch. In email ISI say they will not pay me anymore because change in leadership. Now am broke and have no money to run website that requires $10000 per month and a full time editor. It is time consuming to write articles and at the same time to write comments on article to attract readers while we hardly have visitors and no revenue from ads. Both Mushrraf and ISI ditched me and now am in debt hence almost in street. Now I realized am not doing productive and respectable job through this anti-India propaganda website. Enough is enough on this wrong propaganda mission. Truth can’t be faked in information age of 21st century. Is any Pakistani out here to help me? If nobody helps me within couple of months, I have no choice but to come out of Rupee news and other fake websites forever!
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WHAT IS REALLY ALL ABOUT PAKISTAN?
Alberuni documents in his book, in Pakistan most Hindus who were become Muslims due to forced conversions while under the control of Afghan Muslim rulers. Over one thousand years of Muslim rule in the Punjab, Sindh, Swat and POK, people were exposed to Islamic teachings through the Sufis who retained their basic Hindu practice. But even today Sufism not respected as Islam by Saudi scholars and hence almost every day Taliban attacking Sufi shrines, Ahmadiyya and Shia. Most Pakistani muslims have undeniable Hindu blood and ancestry in them, they are neither acceptable to Afghans nor to Persians hence they face identity crisis even today.
Anyway, following are the ongoing separatist movements:
1)POK Kashmiris struggling to escape from ISI strangle. Gilgit-Baltistans appears to be almost in Chinese control.
2)Pashtuns in FATA never ever accept the rule of Sindhis or Punjabis who are controlling Army and ISI. They want to join their brothers across the border to have Pushtunistan.
3)Balochistan will never forget the brutal burial of Nawaz Bugti at the hands of Pakistan army and ISI. Balochi always identify themselves as Balochi (but not as Pakistani).
There is no end in sight for the everyday ruthless killings between Shias, Sufis, Ahmadiyya and Sunni(Taliban).
What remains is the Sindh and Punjab to be called as Pakistan where partition time migrated Bihari and Bangla muslims still being kicked around as Muhajirs.
The final Pakistan mathematics is:
Pakistan=(Sindh+Punjab) minus (FATA+Baloch+POK)
Nevertheless, how long ISI hegemony can hold all of opposing province (same as Sovit Union) and how long US pour billions of their taxpayer money on an unfaithful companion is anybodys guess. Another 9/11 type attack on US originating from Pakistan could also erase Pakistan. Nevertheless, India got be prepared to handle millions of Pakistanis crossing to India in the event of collapse of cancerous Pakistan ISI entity.