1 down 3 more to go! :— By D. Asghar
Last week if you recall, this scribe wrote a post about US Secretary of State Clinton’s visit and the four names, that were on her list. Re capping those 4 names were, Zawahiri, Siraj Haqqani, Ilyas Kashmiri and Atiya Abdel Rahman.
Major news outlets like ET and Dawn have confirmed of another drone strike taking down 1 out of 4. Ilyas Kashmiri is gone, the latest victim of the “evil drones”, according to one of our heavily charged former sportsman.
I can hear someone in the State Department saying, “Well Done Boys, 1 down, 3 more to go.” If the reports and preliminary investigations into the killing of slain journalist, Syed Saleem Shahzad are true, then IK and his gang had some connection. At least to the extent that PNS Mehran attack was carried out by IK’s people and SSS tried to expose the connection of the infiltration of the IK boys in Pak Navy. The rest is common knowledge.
Now objectively thinking, even if one is vehemently against the drones, one has to agree with these pesky “ababeels” for something: their precision in most cases and their effectiveness. A ground offensive in the region has so many odds. But these things fly in, get the job done and within an hour, the world gets to hear about their accomplishment.
Our gung ho commentators, who consider this as a major violation of the sovereignty ought to consider this rather convincing one liner, “Its a dirty job and some one’s got to do it.” If anything, we should be thankful, that it saves our precious men in Khakhis from a deadly combat.
From all the signs that are so apparent, it is becoming extremely obvious. The heat will be on in the coming months. Chances are that remaining high value targets will be hunted down as well. Some of our misguided anchors, who think this is all about the re election bid of President Obama, are perhaps clueless about American politics. Things are mostly a cliffhanger till November 3rd, even a day prior to our polling. Whether President Obama gets to retain the Oval Office or not, the “War on Terror”, will be continuous and ongoing. It is as clear as day to a lot of people around the globe.
in the meantime retired brigadiers are calling haqqani a friend and ally of pakistan! thank god someone is taking some action or pakistan would be left at the mercy of these delusional fools
http://tribune.com.pk/story/180888/no-need-for-nwa-operations/
Rabia,
Just imagine what will happen, even if the war on terror ends successfully after getting all these renowned terrorists, these commentators will say that never happened. They are living in a world which only they can see. No one else can
Guess what the mindless Jang gives as headline on Ilyas Kashmiri’s killing: “Pakistani Hudood mayn aik aur Amreeki karwai: Intihai matloob dehshatgard Ilyas Kashmiri halak”. http://ejang.jang.com.pk/06-05-2011/Karachi/pic.asp?picname=4219.gif
I think they were about to write “Ilyas Kashmiri Shaheed”. Then someone knocked some sense into them
May God! Give Americans the courage to commit more Drone attacks to get the people of Waziristan, Orakzai, Kurram, Mohmand, Khyaer Agencies freed from the tyranny of these Bastards aka Our strategic assets inflicted upon them by the mutual consent of Imarat-e-Islami Waziristan O Malhiqa Elaqa Jaat.
May God! Give Americans the courage to commit more Drone Attack to get rid the people of Pakistan freed from the tyranny of Asif Ali Zaradari, Rehman Malik and Ashfaq Pervaiz Kiaani.
@Kashif Beta, u don’t need any drones to get rid of the people u listed in ur tirade. Ever heard of a concept called election. Just follow that to the T. You’ll be salvaged forever.
@Kashif Bhai
You still doubt precision of Hazrat Drone . It don’t hurt innocent people .
Mian aab tu aimaan lai ao !
jihadis do not believe in elections, they believe in suicide attacks
and yes after killing of ilyas kashmiri precision of drone is once again proved
This is truly a great strike, which will create havoc among the ranks of terrorists.
this is a huge setback for the terrorists and a huge gain for our country and the globe. Our aim should be to break the backs of the militants and eliminate them as soon as possible.
Can we have Imran Khan on the list too
We need a multi-pronged comprehensive strategy to root out terrorism and extremism from the society.