Comments on: Pilot’s dinner trumps regard for civilian lives

By: Aziz Qureshi

Aziz Qureshi — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 22:59:32 +0000

There are drones on both sides of the war. It is only the nature of the drones that differ. While the american drones are controlled from a NOC thousands of miles away, the taliban drones are remote controlled from the nearby madrassa or other fundamentalist training ground. This “drone” is nothing but your average suicide bomber who is brainwashed into sacrificing his life and the that of dozens of innocents when they unleash their terror in crowded bazaars. At least the American drones take out the bad guys along with the good ones.

Any policy against this kind of warfare should apply equally to both kind of drones. Get it?

By: Feroz

Feroz — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 05:15:17 +0000

Can we get this Ummah concept out of our head, all other religions are tacitly following the same. But they do not coin the idea of Christian nation and alienate all other religious entity. It is high time we focus on Pakistan and built what we could be built at our own rather beg for support, as we did for Nuclear Program and out of the secrete donation the big chunk in pocketed by the few. Armed Drones when operational will not be pitched on western borders, we all know that….These assets are dedicated for the perceived threats from the regular and conventional adversaries. Using same in FATA will divert the anger of locals to PAF and Armed Forces.

By: Cyrus Howell

Cyrus Howell — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 04:45:45 +0000

No Guts. No Glory.

By: Javid

Javid — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:00:58 +0000

Excellent article by the author. I personally tried to engage Prof. Fair in the drone argument and when confronted with facts she just runs away saying you don’t know what you are talking about. For those who support drone strikes my only question to them is “what happened to the rule of law” how can you kill people based on suspicion and shoddy intelligence. If your argument is “they kill indiscriminately so we will kill too” then you stoop down to their level and the vicious killing cycle starts, which is going on for the last 8 years and by the way “they” the suspects are never tried, proven or brought to justice…just eliminated…it is a flawed strategy that has not worked

By: Md Imran

Md Imran — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:26:32 +0000

Few people realize that PAF is developing its own armed drones which will be a game changer ! Under the cloak of darkness, PAF drones will take control of our skies once again to uphold the sovereignity of our land. Pakistan can then build forward bases for drones to protect rest of the ummah.

I have said this before, we need to start investing in aircraft carriers. The ummah nations can fund it , and PNS has the capability to build and operate it. We can then create a game changing carrier force around the world. Lets see what Prof.Fair will say then.

By: Raheel Adnan

Raheel Adnan — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 09:37:34 +0000

Well written!

By: Feroz

Feroz — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 07:33:29 +0000

can you be specific about the guests and the activity they are allowed to carry out. Have a heart get these unwanted guest out of your territory and you will be justifiable to retaliate against the intruders. And what about the same guest attacking your defense installations, religious places and rituals

By: Banjo

Banjo — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 07:30:06 +0000

I am a Pakistani and I do support the drone strikes

By: farmerdr

farmerdr — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 04:46:17 +0000

Two wrongs

By: waqas

waqas — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 03:50:20 +0000

Excellent articel…. the best point is conclusions are drwan based on reasoning rather than conjecture