Pak Army cheers the nation through anti-drone drill
By Makhdoom Babar
Editor-in-Chief
According the new appearing in the national and international press, Pakistan Armys antiaircraft troops, conducted routine exercises in MuzzaffarGarh district area, a city that is just a few miles way from the home town of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani. The main feature of these exercises was that the anti-aircraft columns of Pakistan army, displayed shooting down the invading drones of the enemy. The Pak army soldiers easily shot down the drones during the exercises.
It could be a routine exercise for the ant-aircraft wing of the Pakistan army but it had a huge significance this time as it encouraged the nation that is now quite used to the attacks of the US Drones that the countrys defenders were able to nock down drones without any problem. The drones, used in the Pak Army Exercises could be symbolic and could have been of no match in altitude or damage causing abilities to those used by the Americans to target Pakistans tribal areas frequently, but the drill has come out as a laud and clear massage that Pakistan armed forces are capable of knocking down the drones, if ordered by the elected democratic government
The Daily Mail believes that irrespective of the type of the drones that were shot down during the routine drill, the Pak-armys anti-drone drill has given a huge psychological encouragement and moral booster to the people of Pakistan who had already gone psychologically crippled with the unabated drone attacks and with the top leadership saying that Pakistan was not having the ability to block the continuous US drone strikes. The Daily Mail is of the firm view that this drill, though carried out with different professional motives, has conveyed a very loud and clear message that the defenders of the country are fully capable of defending the motherland against any invasion no matter even if it is a drone invasion. The army has silently cheered the nation up and has conveyed that it can take very good care of the defence of the soil of the motherland but since it is a subordinate institution, it would always prefer to wait for a government order to carry out steps like knocking down the enemy drones and aircraft, whosoever be the enemy.
The Daily Mail would like to mention it here that earlier the Chief of the Pakistan Air Force had clearly stated that PAF was fully capable of knocking down the US Drones at any altitude and height, if ordered by the government while defence Minister stated that Pakistani defence Forces had no technical abilities to knock down the drones as the US drones operate from a very high altitude. The Daily Mail is of the firm opinion that the recent drill, merely by the anti-aircraft wing of Pakistan Army has come as a very clear, yet polite message to all such goofs, sitting in the government.