Drone Attacks Sabotage the US Interests

 Drone Attacks Sabotage the US Interests:

In one of the major drone attacks, more than 40 civilians and policemen were killed when on March 18 this year, an unmanned US aircraft fired four missiles into a building in Datta Khel area of North Waziristan.

Although drone attacks have continued intermittently on Pakistan’s tribal areas in the last few years, which have killed many people, yet this strike was so lethal that on the same day, Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani strongly condemned it as “unjustified and intolerable” and said it was a violation of human rights. He elaborated, “A jirga of peaceful citizens including elders of the area has been targeted carelessly with a complete disregard to human life. He further indicated, “Such an act of violence takes us away from our objective of elimination of terrorism…it was imperative to understand that this critical objective could not be sacrificed for temporary tactical gains”, adding that “security of the people of Pakistan, in any case, stood above all.”

Next day, while reacting to the US-led drone strike, Islamabad summoned the US ambassador, Cameron Munter, and lodged a strong protest, telling that Washington should not treat Pakistan as a client state, demanded an apology and explanation from the US. In this respect, Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary, Salman Bashir also conveyed to Munter that under the current circumstances, Islamabad would not participate in the trilateral meeting among Afghanistan, Pakistan and the US—likely to be held in Brussels on March 26.
Besides other similar strikes of the past, especially gravity of this attack could be judged from the fact that it has triggered a backlash in North Waziristan and other tribal areas.     Ful Story