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Pakistan Air Force Ordered To Shoot Down US Military Drones<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The\u00a0Pakistan Air Force (PAF) has just been ordered to shoot down any foreign drones that violate\u00a0the country\u2019s\u00a0airspace<\/strong> including attack drones operated by the United States, Chief Marshal Sohail Aman said<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n

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The announcement is a complete change from the air force\u2019s\u00a0previous view, of which foreign drone strikes on its soil were condemned but the air force never threatened to shoot them out of the sky.\u00a0\u201cWe will not allow anyone to violate our airspace. I have ordered PAF to shoot down drones, including those of the US, if they enter our airspace, violating the country\u2019s\u00a0sovereignty and territorial integrity,\u201d Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman told an audience in Islamabad.<\/p>\n

The statement was made about two weeks after a US drone strike targeted a militant compound in Pakistan\u2019s\u00a0tribal region along the border of Afghanistan, leading to multiple casualities,<\/strong> The Times of India reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is the first time, the Pakistani government has taken a hard stance against foreign drones, especially the ones operated by US forces based in Afghanistan. The comment from Aman was shocking despite the US has been launching missiles into Pakistan and violating the country\u2019s\u00a0sovereignty since about 2004. The CIA was responsible for most US drone strikes in Pakistan\u00a0until November\u00a030, 2017, said<\/a> The Times of India.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s\u00a0believed, senior members of terrorist groups have been killed over the years in drone strikes, but it has come at a cost of \u201chundreds of civilian\u201d deaths in the form of collateral damage.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Pakistan Air Force Ordered To Shoot Down US Military Drones The\u00a0Pakistan Air Force (PAF) has just been ordered to shoot down any foreign drones that violate\u00a0the country\u2019s\u00a0airspace including attack drones operated by the United States, Chief Marshal Sohail Aman said on Thursday. The announcement is a complete change from the air force\u2019s\u00a0previous view, of which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1007,1745,827,4318],"class_list":["post-28707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-drones","tag-pakistan","tag-united-states","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28708,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28707\/revisions\/28708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}