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MADAyuMadyan - Pakistan melancarkan pertama pesawat Drone yang dihasilkan di dalam negeri pada hari Isnin, polis retak ke atas penunjuk perasaan membantah serangan Amerika Syarikat berdengung mensasarkan militan Islam di wilayah Pakistan .
Drone baru dipanggil Burraq dan Shahpar dan akan digunakan oleh tentera Pakistan dan tentera udara, kata ketenteraan itu dalam satu kenyataan pada Isnin, walaupun mereka tidak nyatakan jika Drone akan bersenjata atau tidak bersenjata.
Kenyataan dari tentera datang sebagai polis menghalang penunjuk perasaan cuba untuk menyekat trak membawa bekalan NATO ke dan dari ditempatkan pasukan di negara jiran Afghanistan.
Bantahan bermula (began) pada hari Sabtu apabila kriket bintang Pakistan menjadi ahli politik Imran Khan membawa ribuan penunjuk perasaan untuk menyekat jalan yang digunakan untuk barang-barang kapal ke dan dari Afghanistan di wilayah Khyber Pakh-tunkhwa di barat laut Pakistan.
Parti politik Khan, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Intan, telah berkata ia akan menyekat trak NATO sehingga Amerika Syarikat berakhir serangan Drone. Kumpulannya telah menjadi peng-kritik lantang serangan Drone Amerika Syarikat tetapi hanya bermula tindakan langsung Sabtu lalu.
Dan pada hari Ahad anggota partinya berhenti lori dan dikasari pemandu di tol di pinggir Peshawar, ibukota wilayah Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Polis yang hadir di tempat kejadian tetapi tidak cuba untuk menghentikan penunjuk perasaan.
Tetapi pegawai polis Behram Khan berkata sehingga Isnin polis hanya akan membenarkan protes aman di tepi jalan dan tidak akan membenarkan orang ramai untuk menghentikan lori2 seperti yang berlaku hari Ahad. Beliau menambah bahawa mereka telah memulakan siasatan terhadap tindakan aktivis pada hari Ahad yang boleh membawa kepada tuduhan jenayah.
CIA mula mensasarkan militan Islam dalam serangan Drone dalam puak kawasan ‘North West’ Pakistan pada tahun 2004. Mereka telah menjadi sangat kontroversi kerana pelang-garan mereka kedaulatan Pakistan dan jumlah mangsa awam. Anggaran jumlah orang awam yang dibunuh kerana serangan Drone Amerika Syarikat secara meluas berbeza-beza antara 290 dan hampir 900.
Tetapi isu ini rumit kerana kerajaan Pakistan diketahui yang telah membenarkan beberapa serangan Drone an yang lain.
Sebaliknya menjalankan serangan sendiri, Pakistan telah meminta Amerika Syarikat untuk menyediakan dengan pesawat bersenjata, mengatakan bahawa mereka akan lebih berkesan dalam menjalankan serangan ke atas militan. Walau bagaimanapun, Washington enggan kerana sifat sensitif teknologi yang digunakan dalam pesawat dan keraguan sama ada Pakistan pasti boleh sasarankan musuh-musuh Amerika Syarikat.
Untuk bahagian sendiri Pakistan telah cuba untuk membangunkan pesawat sendiri tetapi bergelut dengan teknologi canggih yang diperlukan bagi pembuatannya.
Pegawai Pakistan tentera yang bercakap dengan syarat tidak mahu namanya disiarkan memberitahu AP bahawa mereka telah bergelut dengan peluru ketepatan yang diperlukan dalam pesawat dan membangunkan dilakukan cukup besar untuk membawa peluru berpandu yang tepat dan dengan cukup lama yang pelbagai.
PAKISTANn deploy first home-made Drones
Pakistan launched its first domestically produced drones on Monday, as police cracked down on demonstrators protesting US drone strikes targeting Islamic militants on Pakistani territory.
The new drones are called the Burraq and Shahpar and will be used by the Pakistani army and air force, the military said in a statement on Monday, although they did not specify if the drones will be armed or unarmed.
The statement from the military comes as the police prevented protesters trying to block trucks carrying NATO supplies to and from troops stationed in neighboring Afghanistan.
The protests began on Saturday when the Pakistani cricket star turned politician Imran Khan led thousands of demonstrators to block a road used to ship goods to and from Afghanistan in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in northwestern Pakistan.
Khan’s political party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, has said it will block NATO trucks until the US ends drone strikes. His group has been a vocal critic of US drone strikes but only began direct action last Saturday.
And on Sunday members of his party stopped trucks and roughed up drivers at a toll on the outskirts of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Police were present at the scene but did not attempt to stop the protesters.
But police officer Behram Khan said as of Monday police would only permit peaceful protests by the side of the road and would not allow people to stop trucks as happened Sunday. He added that they had opened an investigation into the activist’s actions on Sunday that could lead to criminal charges.
The CIA began targeting Islamic militants in drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal North West regions in 2004. They have been a highly controversial because of their violation of Pakistani sovereignty and the number of civilian casualties. Estimates of the number of civilians killed because of US drone strikes vary widely between 290 and almost 900.
But the issue is complicated because the Pakistani government is known to have sanctioned some drone attacks but not others.
Instead of carrying out the attacks themselves, Pakistan has asked the US to provide it with armed drones, saying that they would be more effective in carrying out attacks on militants. However, Washington has refused because of the sensitive nature of the technology used in drones and doubts whether Pakistan can reliably target US enemies.
For its own part Pakistan has been trying to develop its own drones but has struggled with the advanced technology required for their manufacture.
Pakistani military officials speaking on condition of anonymity told AP that they have been struggling with the precision munitions required in drones and of developing a done large enough to carry accurate missiles and with a long enough range.
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