Yearbook 2006
 Pakistan. Extensive unrest occurred during the year in
the clan-controlled area of North Waziristan on the Afghan
border as well as in the southwest province of Baluchistan.
In Northern Waziristan, dominated by clan leaders with a
benevolent attitude to the Afghan Taliban, there were
occasional fierce fighting between the army and clan
militia. Hundreds of clan warriors and foreign volunteers
were reported to have been killed. In September, the
government and the clan leaders signed an agreement that the
army would partially withdraw against foreign armed
extremists being expelled and the cross-border raids
stopped.
In the gas-producing but economically disadvantaged
Baluchistan, the Baluchistan Liberation Army (BLA) conducted
a series of attacks against gas lines, trains and military
patrols. The government labeled BLA as terrorist and banned
the organization in April. In July, the army went on
offensive against the guerrillas and attack aircraft were
also deployed. Widespread unrest erupted when Baluch's most
influential leader Nawab Akbar Bugti was killed in battle in
August. He was head of the 200,000 members of the mighty
Bugtiklan and former provincial governor and leading
spokesman for the Baluchs during the separatist uprisings of
recent years.
In a suicide attack in November, 42 soldiers were killed
in an army school in the Northwest Border Province (NWFP). A
few days earlier, about 80 people had been killed in a
helicopter attack on a Koran school that, according to the
government, housed militant Islamists.
According to
CountryAAH, religious fanaticism also demanded several sacrifices
this year. At least 27 people were killed in an attack on a
Shiite ceremony in NWFP in February, while 57 were killed in
an attack on a Sunni festival in Karachi in April.
An Islamist six-party alliance announced nationwide
protests since the federal parliament decided that rape
should no longer be classified under Sharia law. By
attributing the crime to ordinary criminal law, the
requirement that four male witnesses have to prove that a
rape has been committed is abolished, which almost always
made it impossible for an exposed woman to get justice in
court.
Former President Ghulam Ishaq Khan passed away in October
at the age of 91. As President of the Senate, he became
president of the military dictator Zia ul-Haq's death in
1988. He made himself best known for having deposed two
democratically elected governments.
In June, Svenska Saab received a clearance for the sale
of an airborne surveillance system for SEK 8.3 billion.
A much larger deal was done by the Pakistan Defense
Forces with the US, which approved the delivery of eighteen
new F-16 aircraft and an unspecified number of modernized
older aircraft of the same model.
The peace talks with India ceased a few months after
Pakistan was accused of involvement in the terrorist attacks
in Bombay in July. Contacts were resumed in late autumn.
2011 CIA terror
On January 27, 2011, the CIA killed 2 civilians in
Pakistan. There was nothing new in it. The CIA annually
kills hundreds of civilian Pakistanis in its uncontrolled
drone attacks across Pakistani territory. The new thing was
that the killings happened in full daylight in the country's
second largest city of Lahore. 36-year-old CIA agent Raymond
Allen Davis believed to be pursued by a couple of youngsters
on a motorcycle as he drove through Lahore. He shot and
killed one, then drove into the other, who died from his
injuries. Then he called after backup from the CIA that sent
a car that, on its hazardous drive through Lahore, killed
another random passenger.
Despite the gunmen from the CIA, Pakistani police managed
to arrest Davis, who was subsequently charged with murder.
The United States protested, claiming he was employed at the
embassy and therefore had diplomatic immunity. It disputed
the Pakistani authorities and demanded him to stand trial.
So far it never came. Behind the facade, the United States
unfolded extensive diplomatic activity and put enormous
pressure on the Pakistani authorities. On March 16, the
killer was able to leave the country as a free man after the
Pakistani authorities paid $ 2.4 million on behalf of the
United States. US $ to the families of the killed. A move
that triggered fierce protests in the Pakistani public.
US-Pakistan relations took a turn for the worse on May 2,
when North American special forces on a secret mission deep
into Pakistan executed Osama bin Laden and subsequently
threw him into the Indian Ocean. The United States admitted
that the Pakistani authorities had not authorized the
operation beforehand, let alone informed beforehand. These
types of operations are not allowed under international law,
which only allows "hot pursuit" operations a few kilometers
into another country's territory. The military action
triggered strong criticism from the Pakistani authorities.
The United States, in turn, accused the Pakistani military
of having known bin Laden's whereabouts, but held his hand
over him. This does not seem credible as the Taliban
subsequently carried out several large-scale revenge actions
against the Pakistani military, which it accused of
cooperating with the United States on the execution.
Relations subsequently deteriorated, and in late May,
Pakistani military convoys blocked, to supply supplies to
the North American occupying power in Afghanistan through
Pakistan. In early July, the US Secretary of State leaked
information about several high-ranking Pakistani military
peoples' participation in nuclear technology sales abroad,
and subsequently threatened to suspend superpower military
assistance to Pakistan. This move led the Pakistani
government to threaten to withdraw the country's ½ million
soldiers from the border areas towards Afghanistan, where
they were otherwise tasked with impeding the movements and
supplies of the Afghan resistance movement. and subsequently
threatened to cease military aid to Pakistan. This move led
the Pakistani government to threaten to withdraw the
country's ½ million soldiers from the border areas towards
Afghanistan, where they were otherwise tasked with making
the Afghan resistance movement's movements and supplies
difficult. and subsequently threatened to cease military aid
to Pakistan. This move led the Pakistani government to
threaten to withdraw the country's ½ million soldiers from
the border areas towards Afghanistan, where they were
otherwise tasked with impeding the movements and supplies of
the Afghan resistance movement.
In July, the situation was further aggravated when
Pakistani lawyer Mirza Shahzad Akbar demanded the head of
the CIA in Pakistan, John Rizzo arrested and brought to
justice for the service's many hundred murders of Pakistani
civilians. The indictment prompted the United States to
immediately withdraw its CIA chief from the country, and,
frothing at rage, accused Pakistan of revealing his
identity. The CIA in Pakistan is responsible for the
hundreds of drone attacks on civilian Pakistanis. The number
of attacks has exploded under President Obama from 4 in
2007, 33 in 2008, 53 in 2009 to 118 in 2010. The United
States itself believes that 95% of those killed are militant
Pakistanis and Afghans, but this claim is disproved by the
extensive reports, documenting the civilian casualties of
the drones. For several years, the Pakistani population has
resisted s use of Pakistan as a scene of war taken in tandem
with the civilian victims, and from July Pakistani lawyers
with Akbar opened cases against the CIA. The accused CIA
agents were being sought through Interpol.
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