AGL 38.21 Decreased By ▼ -0.01 (-0.03%)
AIRLINK 135.30 Increased By ▲ 6.33 (4.91%)
BOP 8.80 Increased By ▲ 0.95 (12.1%)
CNERGY 4.74 Increased By ▲ 0.08 (1.72%)
DCL 8.62 Increased By ▲ 0.30 (3.61%)
DFML 39.30 Increased By ▲ 0.36 (0.92%)
DGKC 85.25 Increased By ▲ 3.31 (4.04%)
FCCL 35.07 Increased By ▲ 1.65 (4.94%)
FFBL 76.00 Increased By ▲ 0.29 (0.38%)
FFL 12.85 Increased By ▲ 0.03 (0.23%)
HUBC 110.50 Increased By ▲ 0.14 (0.13%)
HUMNL 14.00 Decreased By ▼ -0.01 (-0.07%)
KEL 5.39 Increased By ▲ 0.24 (4.66%)
KOSM 7.76 Increased By ▲ 0.09 (1.17%)
MLCF 41.69 Increased By ▲ 1.89 (4.75%)
NBP 71.05 Decreased By ▼ -1.27 (-1.76%)
OGDC 190.49 Increased By ▲ 2.20 (1.17%)
PAEL 26.30 Increased By ▲ 0.67 (2.61%)
PIBTL 7.43 Increased By ▲ 0.06 (0.81%)
PPL 157.74 Increased By ▲ 5.07 (3.32%)
PRL 26.04 Increased By ▲ 0.65 (2.56%)
PTC 18.89 Increased By ▲ 1.19 (6.72%)
SEARL 82.41 Decreased By ▼ -0.01 (-0.01%)
TELE 7.88 Increased By ▲ 0.29 (3.82%)
TOMCL 34.25 Increased By ▲ 1.68 (5.16%)
TPLP 8.40 Decreased By ▼ -0.02 (-0.24%)
TREET 17.12 Increased By ▲ 0.34 (2.03%)
TRG 58.65 Increased By ▲ 2.61 (4.66%)
UNITY 29.11 Increased By ▲ 0.33 (1.15%)
WTL 1.34 Decreased By ▼ -0.01 (-0.74%)
BR100 10,716 Increased By 57.6 (0.54%)
BR30 31,958 Increased By 626.6 (2%)
KSE100 99,651 Increased By 381.9 (0.38%)
KSE30 31,011 Decreased By -21.5 (-0.07%)

An American drone strike in the frontier tribal areas killed 10 suspected militants Sunday, officials said as the US pushes ahead with its drone campaign in the face of Pakistani demands to stop. It was the sixth American drone strike over the last two weeks and emphasised the importance the US government puts on the drone campaign, which it considers to be a vital tool in the war against al-Qaida and the Taliban.
Two intelligence officials say four missiles were fired at the village of Mana Raghzai in South Waziristan near the border with Afghanistan on Sunday morning.
At the time of the attack, suspected militants were gathered to offer condolences to the brother of a militant commander killed during another American unmanned drone attack on Saturday. The brother was one of those who died in the Sunday morning attack. The officials said two of the dead were foreigners, and the rest were Pakistani.
The American drone campaign has been a source of deep frustration and tension between the US and Pakistan.
Under President Barack Obama, the US stepped up its drone campaign in the Pakistani border areas as a way to combat al-Qaida and Taliban fighters from using Pakistan as a base for attacks against American and Nato forces in Afghanistan. However, the number of drone attacks has eased in recent years. Secretly, many Pakistani military commanders are believed to support the drone campaign. But among the Pakistani public, where the US is viewed with mistrust, the drone strikes are considered an affront to their sovereignty.
The Pakistani government and parliament has repeatedly asked the US to stop the drone strikes.
The ongoing attacks are also complicating efforts for the US and Pakistan to come to an agreement over reopening the supply routes to Nato and American forces in Afghanistan. American airstrikes inadvertently killed 24 Pakistani soldiers in November, prompting Islamabad to block US and Nato supply lines into Afghanistan.

Copyright Associated Press, 2012

Comments

Comments are closed.