Shahpar.
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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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