‘National Bird’ shines light on secretive drone wars
The convoy had stopped for prayers in a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan when the Hellfire missiles came out of a clear blue sky, incinerating vehicles and liquidating 23 unarmed…
Death by drone
The recent attack that removed Mullah Mansour from our midst is yet another reason for Imran Khan to hate drones as media coverage has shifted away from the Panama Papers. But…
Jailed for drones
Mary Anne Grady Flores is in jail and American citizens everywhere can surely breathe a sigh of relief that we are safe from her criminal behaviour at least for the…
Drones and peace
The use of unmanned US drones in Afghanistan has stepped up since January. With the launch of the new US counterterrorism mission, Freedom Sentinel, the ongoing and intensifying drone campaign…
Rights of victims of bombing
WHILE the jury is still out on the desirability and impact of US drone attacks in Pakistan’s tribal areas the argument that innocent civilians’ deaths in these strikes constitute inevitable…
Drone blame game
US Drone strikes have continued relentlessly in the Fata region. Most recently, on June 6, a US drone strike killed at least nine suspected militants in the Shawal valley of…
Killer drones, killer robots
War is becoming faceless. Warfare in general is becoming increasingly automated. There is a race to develop weapons that can be used without human intervention. Killer drones and robots are…
The faces of drone war
Up in the mountains of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in northern Pakistan, a giant image of an orphan girl is now laid out next to the mud houses of the locals. She…
Drone dilemma
KILLER drones pose a moral and policy dilemma for the US and Pakistan. The US has found drones an easy and low-cost option to kill targeted ‘terrorists’. Over 500 drone…
Drones doublespeak
Even as we were losing the 1965 war to India – yes, ignore your Pakistan Studies textbooks; we lost that war – the Ayub Khan-ZAB propaganda machine kept cranking out…
