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Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Crossing the line - News


The recent air raids have
angered locals and the
media in Pakistan

Image Source:
BBC

Recently, US airplanes had entered Pakistani airspace and conducted an air raid which has angered the entire nation. Questions are being raised by media journalists and another concerned citizens as to how much power the US has been given by the Pakistani authorities. Entering a soverign nation's airspace without prior consent is generally regarded as a sign of disrespect and at times, a call for war. However, since the war in Afghanistan, Pakistan is seen as a strong ally to the US. This recent incident has angered everyone within Pakistxan because this is not the first time that the US has extended it's war on terror beyond the borders of it's own battlefield. Pakistani newspapers have been extremely critical of this action by the US military and demands answers. Read more here.

3 comments:

Edward Ott said...

it also would have seemed smarter for the US to try and grab this guy and not kill him, as he might know where Osama is and isn't the US military supposed to be looking for Osama?

Raheel Lakhani said...

America is so messed up and Army should be more alert.

Asad Raza said...

Exactly. Whatever happened to the serach for Mr. OBL? Just like the priority of searching for WMDs in Iraq was undermined because of the search for Saddam, the "rebuilding" of Iraq has now taken precedence over the search for OBL.