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Why Pakistan allow U.S Drone Strikes
It is estimated that there have been 423 drone strikes in Pakistan since 2004.
Mixed sources say that there have been anywhere from 100 Civilian deaths to 3000 including up to 207 children.
Year Attacks Casualties
Militants Civilians Other Total
2004 1 3 2 2 7
2005 3 5 6 4 15
2006 2 1 93 0 94
2007 4 51 0 12 63
2008 36 223 28 47 298
2009 54 387 70 92 549
2010 122 788 16 45 849
2011 73 420 62 35 517
2012 48 268 5 33 306
2013 26 145 4 4 153
2014 22 145 0 0 145
2015 10 57 0 0 57
2016 2 8 0 0 8
Total 403 2,498 286 274 3,058
Pakistan’s government publicly condemns these attacks. However, it also allegedly allowed the drones to operate from Shamsi Airfield in Pakistan until 21 April 2011.
According to secret diplomatic cables leaked by Wikileaks, Pakistan’s Army Chief Ashfaq Parvez Kayani not only tacitly agreed to the drone flights, but in 2008 requested that Americans increase them.
the propeller-driven drones most commonly used to kill terrorists in Pakistan, would be child’s play for a Pakistani Air Force pilot to take down
They’re easy to detect on radar, and they fly around 100 mph (MQ-1 Predator or an MQ-9 Reaper)
The RQ-170 Sentinel, for example, is much more difficult to detect on radar, and its jet engines enable it to fly at just below the speed of sound.
In the months before Osama Bin Laden’s killing, Sentinel drones flew between the seams of Pakistan’s radar systems to spy on his Abbottabad compound.
Military experts still argue over whether the Sentinel that went down in Iran in 2011 was shot or simply malfunctioned.
Pakistan refuses to shoot down US Drones not because it doesn’t have the capability, but due to it’s political subservience to America.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_strikes_in_Pakistan
https://www.quora.com/Is-it-difficult-to-shoot-down-a-military-grade-drone
