Drone Attacks Damage the US Interests

[The Northerner]

At this sensitive moment, when Pak-US diplomats were negotiating a complex issue of restoring the NATO supply routes across Pakistan to Afghanistan in wake of the heightening political noise inside the country, US accelerated CIA-operated drone attacks, killing more than 50 people in North Waziristan.

After a two-month pause in the aftermath of the US-led NATO deliberate air attack which killed 25 soldiers on Pakistan Army border posts on November 26 last year, and by setting aside Islamabad's strict measures such as suspension of NATO supply to Afghanistan and vacation of Shamsi Airbase, these strikes by the unmanned aircraft continue on Pak tribal areas.

During his recent visit to India, while pampering New Delhi, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has repeatedly pointed out that drone attacks would continue on save havens of terrorists in Pakistan. Afterwards, in Kabul by reviving US old blame game, Panetta allegedly said on June 7 that the US was reaching the limits of its patience with Pakistan due to safe havens, "the country offered to insurgents in neighbouring Afghanistan."

Leon Panetta's tough comments coupled with predator's strikes created complication to narrow the differences between both the countries, and the result was a deadlock, while both Pakistan and America were near to sign an agreement as US top officials remarked.

In fact, attacks by spy planes are part of American covert war against Pakistan. Therefore, even President Barack Obama has defended these strikes on FATA under the pretext of its so-called counterinsurgency programme. On the one side, US top officials including Panetta has blamed Pakistan for cross-border terrorism, while on the other, American CIA, Indian RAW and Israeli Mossad, based in Afghanistan have been sending well-trained militants in Pakistan, who not only attack the check posts of Pakistan's security forces, but also target schools and mosques. These agencies also support various subversive acts in Pakistan, especially in Balochistan besides backing Baloch separatism.

Read more: http://paktribune.com/articles/Drone-Attacks-Damage-the-US-Interests-242932.html

[msongs]

1. murdering people causes problems? who could have predicted that nt

[RC]

2. Yeah, but if we kill them, that means they were terrorists.

How come we don't have any countries operating with impunity, killing people in this country, like we do in other countries? Fair's fair, right?
Did Congress declare war on Pakistan? Why are we killing people there? Their government seems to be having a problem with that.

[SidDithers]

3. 251...nt

Sid