Pakistan says U.S. drones in its air space will be shot down
By NBC News, msnbc.com
16 hours ago, updated at 8 p.m. EST
Translation by Autumnson Blog
ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan will shoot down any U.S. drone that intrudes its air space per new directives, a senior Pakistani official told NBC News on Saturday.
伊斯蘭堡 - 巴基斯坦按照新指令，將擊落任何闖入其領空的美軍無人駕駛飛機，一名巴基斯坦高級官員週六告訴 NBC新聞。
巴基斯坦安全人員8月時檢查一架在巴基斯坦境內墜毀的美國偵察無人機。
According to the new Pakistani defense policy, "Any object entering into our air space, including U.S. drones, will be treated as hostile and be shot down," a senior Pakistani military official told NBC News.
據新的巴基斯坦國防政策，“任何進入我們領空的物體，包括美國無人駕駛飛機，都將被視為敵對和會被擊落，”巴基斯坦一名高級軍事官員告訴 NBC新聞。
The policy change comes just weeks after a deadly NATO attack on Pakistani military checkpoints accidentally killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, prompting Pakistani officials to order all U.S. personnel out of a remote airfield in Pakistan.
政策改變剛出現在數週前一次北約致命襲擊巴基斯坦的軍事檢查站後，意外地殺害了24名巴基斯坦士兵，促使巴基斯坦官員下令所有美國人員離開在巴基斯坦的一個偏遠機場。
Pakistan told the U.S. to vacate Shamsi Air Base by December 11.
A senior military official from Quetta, Pakistan, confirmed to NBC News on Saturday that the evacuation of the base, used for staging classified drone flights directed against militants, “will be completed tomorrow,” according to NBC’s Fakhar ur Rehman.
Pakistan's Frontier Corps security forces took control of the base Saturday evening after most U.S. military personnel left, Xinhua news agency reported. Civil aviation officials also moved in Saturday, Xinhua said.
Pakistani Military Chief Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani had issued multiple directives since the Nov. 26 NATO attack, which included orders to shoot down U.S. drones, senior military officials confirmed to NBC News on Saturday.
It was unclear Saturday whether orders to fire upon incoming U.S. drones was part of the initial orders.
The Pakistani airbase had been used by U.S. forces, including the CIA, to stage elements of a clandestine U.S. counter-terrorism operation to attack militants linked to al-Qaida, the Taliban and Pakistan's home-grown Haqqani network, using unmanned drone aircraft armed with missiles.
President Barack Obama stepped up the drone campaign after he took office. U.S. officials say it has produced major successes in decimating the central leadership of al-Qaida and putting associated militant groups on the defensive.
Since 2004, U.S. drones have carried out more than 300 attacks inside Pakistan.
Pakistani authorities started threatening U.S. personnel with eviction from the Shamsi base in the wake of the raid last May in which U.S. commandos killed Osama bin Laden at his hide-out near Islamabad without notifying Pakistani officials in advance.
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