US Drone Protesters in Pakistan Block NATO Supply Route

[jakeXT]

Source: VOA

In Pakistan, some 10,000 or more people protesting U.S. drone strikes blocked a NATO supply route into Afghanistan Saturday.

Pakistani cricket star-turned-politician Imran Khan led the demonstration, threatening to block supply lines through his region indefinitely if the drone attacks do not end.

Khan's political party runs the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan's northwest, bordering Afghanistan.

Saturday's protest comes just two days after a suspected U.S. drone strike on an Islamic seminary in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa killed at least six people. The seminary is known to be visited by members of the Afghan Haqqani network -- one of the most feared groups battling foreign troops in Afghanistan alongside the Taliban.

Read more: http://www.voanews.com/content/us-drone-protesters-in-pakistan-block-nato-supply-route/1796359.html

[KoKo]

1. Recommend.

[cosmicone]

2. Imran Khan has become a terrorist sympathizer.

Why is he not protesting terrorist attacks by his cronies in neighboring countries? Why is he not protesting ISI and military's support to terrorist outfits.

If they didn't have terrorists, there would be no drone strikes.

He is protesting because the drone strikes hit the terrorist organizations in their genitals and makes them ineffective. Go drones!!

[Enrique]

3. drone strikes help the terrorists n/t

[Comrade Grumpy]

5. You really ought to get over there and go kill those terrorists yourself.

Leave us out of it.

[cosmicone]

10. A vast majority of Americans

including me, support the drone strikes.

If you like the terrorists that much, go live with them instead!

[Ace Acme]

13. Drone strikes are terrorism, and the strike on a seminary is a case in point.

Even if it's true that the seminary has been visited by members of the of the Afghan Haqqani network, this is a case of collective punishment and guilt by association.

No claim is made that members of the Afghan Haqqani network were killed, were present, or are terrorists. It is certainly possible to come to the aid of neighboring patriots in combating foreign invaders without being a terrorist.

[cosmicone]

16. You go tell that

to the victims of Pakistani/Taliban/Al Q'aeda terrorism around the world -- which, by the way, includes every woman in Afghanistan who is denied education and freedom.

[Ace Acme]

17. Thank you for condoning US terrorism. It's nice to know where you're coming from.

Please advise--who died and made the CiC of the US the emperor of the universe responsible to protect everybody everywhere from terrorists whether they want to be protected or not?

You don't see any problem with that kind of open-ended crusade?

[cosmicone]

18. It is neither open ended nor is it a crusade.

Furthermore, victims of terrorism want this all over the world.

Have you ever seen pictures of cheering crowds in Jordan, Afghanistan, India and East Africa when the drones kill terrorists by the boat load?

If the opponents don't want drone strikes, arrest the terrorists and bring them to justice. When is your flight leaving for Pakistan?

[Ace Acme]

19. I have never heard of a pro-drone demonstration anywhere in the world.

Where do you find out about these things?

[MyNameGoesHere]

7. Go drones?

Why that qualifies you to be the next secretary of defense in President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho's admin. I would support you.

[cosmicone]

11. Where do I send a check to

Dwayne Elizando Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho's campaign?

[Comrade Grumpy]

4. Just shut down that supply route permanently. NATO can go home.

Imagine the nerve of that Imran Khan! Being against killer flying robots wreaking havoc in his country. The nerve!

[geek tragedy]

6. He's opposed to anything that opposes the Taliban.

He's a fan of the guy who ordered the Malala shooting.

[U4ikLefty]

9. prove both of your assertions

[geek tragedy]

12. They don't call him Taliban Khan by accident.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/oct/14/imran-khan-taliban-afghanistan-islam

Afghanistan's government has lashed out at Imran Khan after the former Pakistan cricket star, now a politician, said the Taliban were fighting a "holy war" in the country that was justified by Islamic law.

Speaking after visiting a hospital in Peshawar where Malala Yousafzai – the 14-year-old activist shot in the head by the Taliban for supporting girls' education – was treated last week, Khan told reporters that insurgents in Afghanistan were fighting a "jihad". Citing a verse from the Qur'an, he said: "It is very clear that whoever is fighting for their freedom is fighting a jihad …

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Khan has also courted criticism by saying he will not publicly name the Taliban while criticising the men who attempted to kill Malala, because he feared it would put his party's supporters at risk.

He has never once criticized the Taliban, and has compared their version of sharia to the Scandinavian model of social welfare.

[Comrade Grumpy]

14. Because no one could be opposed to the use of killer drones on their territory...

...by a foreign power just on principle.

[geek tragedy]

15. He's opposed to Pakistan taking military action against the Taliban too.

He has never criticized the Taliban--for any reason. Not for shooting Malala, not for blowing up churches as in Peshawar (he suggested the latter was the US or Indians).

He has praised their efforts to install an Islamic caliphate in Afghanistan and has compared Taliban-style Sharia to the Scandinavian social welfare system.

He has not gotten the moniker "Taliban Khan" for nothing.

[ConcernedCanuk]

8. USA - "winning hearts and minds" all over the Globe.

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I think the USA should feed and house it's poor, take care of it's veterans and elderly, show the World they have a stable government etc.,

then MAYBE, just MAYBE they might be viewed as a responsible "policeman" for the World.

That might take a while . . . .

CC

[Ace Acme]

20. America is not to be trusted to wield Vigilante "justice"

... when it deceives itself so easily.