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Today 18 more people including some alleged militants have been killed in a missile strike by suspected US military drones in the restive North Waziristan tribal district bordering Afghanistan. On Friday three women and three children were also killed in the same border region and several more people have died in almost daily attacks on Pakistani territory.
Last week US soldiers intruded into Pakistani territory and killed 15 people in neighbouring South Waziristan. Pakistan's parliament condemned the attack and the foreign minster Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that such attacks will be counter-productive and fuel hatred among the tribesmen about the US-led war on terror.
US and the coalition forces have repeatedly denied such attacks. But the fact remains that the missile equipped drones are only operated by the US military as no other military in the world has such kind of drones.
Pakistan has repeatedly asked the foreign forces stationed in neighbouring Afghanistan not to attack Taliban militants on Pakistani territory as it would undermine its sovereignty.
When such missile strikes are reported by local sources, the Pakistan military and the foreign troops commands based in Afghanistan express their ignorance. Critics are now saying that there is a tacit understanding between the US and Pakistani authorities to conduct such targeted strikes against Taliban and Al-Qaeda linked militants who are accused of attacking foreign troops in Afghanistan and then taking shelter in Pakistani tribal areas. But most of the casualties in such strikes are innocent women and children.
For how long the killing of innocent women and children will continue? The people of this area cannot be subjugated by killing sprees and such attacks are bound to create more suicide bombers. It is almost eight years now since the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States that the world has become most unsafe as it was ever in the past. People of Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan are bearing the most of the brunt of this so-called war on terror on daily basis and above all there is no hope that it will end in near future.
The people and the government of the United States must look beyond their noses and ponder what they have done to this world and what they can do to reverse this process.
[/caption]Today 18 more people including some alleged militants have been killed in a missile strike by suspected US military drones in the restive North Waziristan tribal district bordering Afghanistan. On Friday three women and three children were also killed in the same border region and several more people have died in almost daily attacks on Pakistani territory.
Last week US soldiers intruded into Pakistani territory and killed 15 people in neighbouring South Waziristan. Pakistan's parliament condemned the attack and the foreign minster Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that such attacks will be counter-productive and fuel hatred among the tribesmen about the US-led war on terror.
US and the coalition forces have repeatedly denied such attacks. But the fact remains that the missile equipped drones are only operated by the US military as no other military in the world has such kind of drones.
Pakistan has repeatedly asked the foreign forces stationed in neighbouring Afghanistan not to attack Taliban militants on Pakistani territory as it would undermine its sovereignty.
When such missile strikes are reported by local sources, the Pakistan military and the foreign troops commands based in Afghanistan express their ignorance. Critics are now saying that there is a tacit understanding between the US and Pakistani authorities to conduct such targeted strikes against Taliban and Al-Qaeda linked militants who are accused of attacking foreign troops in Afghanistan and then taking shelter in Pakistani tribal areas. But most of the casualties in such strikes are innocent women and children.
For how long the killing of innocent women and children will continue? The people of this area cannot be subjugated by killing sprees and such attacks are bound to create more suicide bombers. It is almost eight years now since the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States that the world has become most unsafe as it was ever in the past. People of Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan are bearing the most of the brunt of this so-called war on terror on daily basis and above all there is no hope that it will end in near future.
The people and the government of the United States must look beyond their noses and ponder what they have done to this world and what they can do to reverse this process.
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