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| Thousands protest against US drone attacks in Karachi |
| 2011-05-23 |
| [Dawn] Thousands demonstrated in Bloody Karachi on Sunday to demand an immediate end to US missile strikes in Pakistain's lawless tribal areas and urge the blocking of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... supplies passing through the country. I've got a Google alert in for when they protest Qaeda-controlled turbans attacking their military installations. So far nothing. Activists from the Tehreek-e-Insaf (Movement for Justice) continued a two-day sit-in outside the city's Arabian Sea port, urging the government to end its cooperation with Washington's "war on terror". "It is not Pakistain's war, this is America's war. This war has killed thousands of innocent Paks, women and kiddies," the group's leader and former cricketer Imran Khan ... who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five... told the gathering of around 7,000 supporters. Bloody Karachi is Pakistain's economic hub, home to its stock exchange and a lifeline for a depressed economy wilting under inflation and stagnating foreign investment. The city, the country's largest, is important to logistical support for NATO forces fighting against Talibs in Afghanistan. "There was not a single Taliban bad turban in Pakistain before 9/11 but since we joined this war, we are facing acts of terrorism, bombing and drone strikes," Khan said. The demonstrators chanted anti-US slogans and carried banners and placards reading "Death for America" and "Stop drone strikes in Pakistain". Khan said the US drone strikes were creating "suicide kaboom factories"and urged the government to stop taking foreign aid. "These attacks are against Pakistain's interests. I ask the government to stop NATO supplies via Pakistain, but I am sure they can't, because these shame-proof rulers are getting dollars," he said. NATO supply trucks, oil tankers and equipment required by coalition troops in Afghanistan are shipped through Pakistain, although US troops increasingly use alternative routes through central Asia. The US drone strikes are deeply unpopular among the Pak public, who see foreign military action on Pak soil as a violation of national illusory sovereignty. Pakistain has officially protested to the United States that the strikes violate its illusory sovereignty, although some officials have said there is a tacit understanding between the two militaries allowing such action. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 The Pak Talibunnies blow up a naval airbase in your own city. Flames visible far and wide. Shell blowing up. Fleets of ambulances screaming... and you idiots protest the US actions hundreds of miles away..... You deserve whatever is happening to you. |
| Posted by: Water Modem 2011-05-23 16:45 |