US drone strikes in Pakistan ‘counterproductive’
Shaukat Qadir, founder and former president of the Islamabad Policy Research Institute says the United States’ drone campaign in Pakistan is “counterproductive” as its victims are civilians mostly, not militants.
Qadir told Press TV’s U.S. Desk on Saturday that Islamabad “is not firm enough” to put an end to the fatal American strikes.
A Pakistani parliamentary commission has recently been tasked with reviewing ties with Washington after airstrikes four months ago killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and prompted Islamabad to close its borders to U.S. and NATO supply lines to neighboring Afghanistan.
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A February 2012 report by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism said American drones in Pakistan under the Obama administration alone have killed between 282 and 535 civilians, including 60 children.
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