Local and international media had reported two suspected US drone strikes in the North and South Waziristan tribal regions in early February, killing up to 11 people including two Al Qaeda men. File Photo
Whodunnit? US, Pak Quarrel Over Drone Strikes -- Times of India
WASHINGTON: It's a hilarious situation, except perhaps for the nameless victims of the attacks. Pakistan says American drone attacks on its tribal regions is killing civilians, alienating people, and keeps asking the US to halt them — unless it gives Pakistan drones or drone technology so it can carry out the strikes itself. Washington says the protests are phony, a public posturing by Pakistan which privately accedes to drone strikes in areas where it has ceded sovereignty, a charge Islamabad denies.
Now the two sides have carried the farce one step further. The US has suggested Pakistan is falsely accusing Washington of carrying out drone strikes to cover up its own operations. Specifically, the Obama administration has denied it carried out two drone strikes that were carried out in early February, and reported by the media. Apparently, the US did not carry out those strikes — and they might not even have occurred at all.
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