Russian TV: Despite continuing pleads to abolish drone strikes in Pakistan, the United States used an unmanned aircraft to target a girls’ school over the weekend, executing four suspected militants in the strike.
The latest report comes a month after the United States last launched a drone strike in Pakistan, but also nearly four years since the parliament there first urged the US to end the program.
Only one month ago, the Pakistani parliament voted unanimously on a new set of rules that establish how it will continue to govern its relationship with the United States. Both countries have been at odds since the US military began an operation in Pakistan waged against al-Qaeda militants following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, but relations have worn especially thin since the clandestine execution of Osama bin Laden one year ago this week in Abbottabad.
Although the US has scaled back their drone strikes in recent weeks, the unannounced attack over the weekend is being viewed by some as a refusal on America’s part to pull the plug on one of its most heated and long-ending operations.
Responding to the strike over the weekend, Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry released a statement condemning the drone strike as a “total contravention of international law and established norms of interstate relations.”
Categories: Americas, Human Rights, Murder, Pakistan, Terrorism, United States, War
Well, regarding the ‘continuous pleads to abolish drone strikes’…: As per wikileaks the Pakistani leaders told the Americans: ‘You strike whenever and whomever you want and we will publicly protest’…
Seems that is still the case.
Zardar Gilani and co take bag of US dollars for each strike of drone to keep their mouth literally shut.