Drone flights from Pak base halted three months ago

[CoolDool]

WASHINGTON: The CIA suspended its long-standing use of an air base in Pakistan as a launch site for armed drones targeting members of al Qaeda and other militant groups three months ago, according to US and Pakistani officials.

In a report published in Washington Post newspaper, Pakistan in recent days has publicly declared that it "ended" all US flights from the base in the wake of the secret US commando raid that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in May.

But US and Pakistani officials said the launches were halted in April, weeks before the bin Laden raid, after a dispute over a CIA contractor who fatally shot two Pakistani citizens in Lahore in January.

All U.S. drone strikes in the past three months have been launched from Afghanistan, in the vicinity of Jalalabad, according to the officials, who spoke about intelligence matters only on the condition of anonymity.

The New America Foundation, which tracks the strikes, has listed 23 such raids since the beginning of April, all but one in Pakistan's tribal regions of North and South Waziristan. A June 20 attack was reported in Kurram, an area above North Waziristan along the Afghanistan border.
http://thenews.com.pk/NewsDetail.aspx?ID=17952

 

[sngilani]

Who knows what is TRUTH. Pakistan may still be telling something differeent to its public and totally different to US (A well known double game of Current Pakistani Government).

 

[gazoomartian]

WASHINGTON: The CIA suspended its long-standing use of an air base in Pakistan as a launch site for armed drones targeting members of al Qaeda and other militant groups three months ago, according to US and Pakistani officials.

In a report published in Washington Post newspaper, Pakistan in recent days has publicly declared that it "ended" all US flights from the base in the wake of the secret US commando raid that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in May.

But US and Pakistani officials said the launches were halted in April, weeks before the bin Laden raid, after a dispute over a CIA contractor who fatally shot two Pakistani citizens in Lahore in January.

All U.S. drone strikes in the past three months have been launched from Afghanistan, in the vicinity of Jalalabad, according to the officials, who spoke about intelligence matters only on the condition of anonymity.

The New America Foundation, which tracks the strikes, has listed 23 such raids since the beginning of April, all but one in Pakistan's tribal regions of North and South Waziristan. A June 20 attack was reported in Kurram, an area above North Waziristan along the Afghanistan border.
http://thenews.com.pk/NewsDetail.aspx?ID=17952

this could well be a face saving news. Since Pakistan has ordered Shamsi base stop usage for drones, they have put out this news to show American public that Pakistan didnt kick us out, we left long time ago.

This statement has been carefully drafted to achieve two purpose:

1. Stand tall to Americans

2. Create rift between Pakistanis and Pakistani govt

 

[Bombaybuz]

We must be looking at end result .... its doesn't matter from where the drones take's off the core thing is where the bombs are landing .... but i have all the faith in Almighty that this whole game is about to end .... no matter what they say or do .... as we can see in last 10 years they did what they maximum could... they talked as ugly as it possibly can be but still they are licking the dirt and Law of Almighty is prevailing.

 

[CoolDool]

This article was published in Washington Post..

this could well be a face saving news. Since Pakistan has ordered Shamsi base stop usage for drones, they have put out this news to show American public that Pakistan didnt kick us out, we left long time ago.

This statement has been carefully drafted to achieve two purpose:

1. Stand tall to Americans

2. Create rift between Pakistanis and Pakistani govt

 

[gazoomartian]

This article was published in Washington Post..

For all the more reason it sheds doubts in its authenticity.

Washpot and NYT are two prominent Jewish newspapers solely meant to be the mouth piece of Israel

 

[Scorpion]

If this is the case than we are having International Violation of our Air space . . . Tomorrow they may enter with Fighter Aircrafts and Commando Teams . . . . We have gave them another license to violate us . . . .

Pakistan is its own worst enemy . . . .

 

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F**k you Kiayani, Pasha and Mushi, you b_a_s_t_e_r_ds are responsible for all the mess in Pakistan. For the last Ten Years you trators have been telling lies to whole nation that America is operating drones attack from some where else, but now the truth has revealed that drone attacks are being carried out from Pakistani Airbases that you r_a_s_c_a_l_s handed over to your American fathers. You are killers of hundred and thousands of innocent people inside pakistan, in Fata and in Afghanistan as well. And you are still liying to us! shame on you.