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US Drone Strike Kills Six in North Waziristan region of Pakistan

US Drone Firing two missiles on a compound and on a vehicle, have killed six people in North Waziristan Agency. Drone strike came on a time when Pakistan Army is fighting militants in same area. However, the residents are not all militants but also the locals/innocent civilians reside there. How a drone from height of thousands of feet above ground can grantee that rocket fired will not harm anyone innocent. Pakistan army with their Operation Zarb-e-Azb is doing good in area and with ground forces they are carefully working to clear the area of terrorists. However, a drone attack at that point in time is pointless. Pakistani Foreign office have already condemned the drone attack in a statement and deemed […]

Inside Story

PTI’s Protest held on 23 Nov 2013 in KPK Against Drone Strikes Turns Out Super Successful

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) a political party led by former cricketer, social worker and politician of the moment Imran Khan had arranged a protest for 23rd Nov 2013 against the drone attacks being held by United States on Pakistani soil. So they the protest rally was held today and tens of thousands of people showed their support for the cause by participating in the rally and it was gone real super successful. The protest was held in order to put pressure on United States by stopping the Nato supply which essentially goes through Pakistan to the Nato forces in Afghanistan. Pakistan does discourage the terrorism and have zero tolerance for any militant groups operating from its soil. But on same time […]

Extremism

Pakistan witnessed more than 49000 reported deaths in so called regarding war on terror

An Indian news article, based on news reports from Pakistan stated that 49000 Pakistanis lost their lives in activities regarding war on terrorism. These include innocent people died in blasts and attacks on civilian population as retaliation to actions against so called militants residing on Pakistani soil. This number is much more than the reported number stated above. As lots of deaths would never have been reported. Some here believe that thing have been mishandled by previous governments, specially Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), the Zardari led political party in power. For example, they were unable to settle terms about drone attacks with United States on Pakistani soil. Which, Americans say, were carried out to target militants but according to all […]

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US drone aircraft attacks North Waziristan killing ten people

US drone aircraft attacked North Waziristan to target militants on Tuesday. Ten people reportedly killed in the attack. The studies conducted on the US drone attacks on Pakistani areas show that these kind of attacks have not been successful to pin point the militants and one in each three killed people is an innocent civilian. Same is the reason for growing anti American sentiments in the country. Pakistani people and Government already demanded that if US really want to make a contribution towards the restoring peace in the country by taking out militants, they must transfer the drone technology instead of taking control of things themselves on Pakistani soil and let the local forces plan and perform the controlled operations […]