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And do what? If a bunch of militants pretending to be civilians suddenly blow themselves up near a NATO truck or even are about to, if the drones react they will simply do the militants' job of blowing the whole convoy to smithereens with their missiles.
There are 2 solutions to this problem:
- Get into an agreement with Pakistani Army to send armed soldiers with shoot-at-sight orders given to them to eliminate any suspect.
- Close down Pak route altogether, listen to what Russia has to say, agree to it and get a safer route through its territory.
Come on dude, drones flying over trucks loaded with fuel and ammunition? The whole reason why bandits and militants are able to blow up convoys is because brute firepower around such flammable and dangerous stuff by security forces is impossible.
The reality is as per agreement Pakistan is NOT responsible for providing security to the supply convoys.
Besides US has signed contracts for supply with Private Suppliers NOT with Pakistani Government or army so demanding that Pakistan army should waste its fuel and workforce for providing cover to US private business affairs is just laughable and out of question.
last time when we blocked supplies for 10 days US was in a big mess and its operations in Afghanistan in many areas got affected.
Though as per my information ( i filed that story too) the government here had announced to ban carrying supply of NATO fuel in private trucks and decided that NLC will be used for this due to security reasons BUT it has not yet been implemented.