Pakistan condemns Unilateral US drone Strike


Pakistan condemns Unilateral US drone Strike 


Two killed in Pre-dawn attack on Afghan refugee camp in Kurram Agency: FO

By Bqir Sajjad Syed & Hassan Mehmood

ISLAMABAD/KALAYA:
Pakistan on Wednesday condemned a US drone strike deep inside its territory targeting an Afghan refugee camp and warned Washington that such unilateral steps would be detrimental to cooperation between the two countries in fight against terrorism. This was the first US Drone strike inside Pakistani territory over the past 19 months, the Foreign Office confirmed, as none of the over one dozen attacks by the unmanned vehicle reported in the media during this period had drawn official condemnation from Pakistan's FO. "Pakistan condemns a drone strike in Kurram Agency carried out by the Resolve Support mission (RSM) this Wednesday morning, witch targeted an Afghan refugee camp" the FO stamen said. 
Area residents told Dawn that an unmanned plane fired missiles on a mud house in Spin Shall near the garrison town of Shall, killing two men namely Ihsanullah and Nasir Mehmood. While locals said this was the third drone strike in Spin Shall in recent months, this was perhaps the first condemns was perhaps the first condemnation by the FO after the killing of Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour by a drone in Balochistan in May 22, 2016. Most of the over dozen drone strikes reported since then took place in Kurram Agency, which is alleged to be the new base of the Haqqani network after being dislodged from North Waziristan due to the Pakistan military operation, Bar-i-Azb. Drone strikes had generally declined after the peak in 2010 with 117 hits. The absence of official condemnation over the past year and half was not the result on any policy shift, but because there was no confirmation of the strikes, a security official explained. Relation with the US have been on a downs lied since the announcement of the new South Asia and continued.........

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