In a move officials are saying is meant to coincide with its much more talked about Afghanistan escalation, the White House has reportedly approved an expansion of the CIA drone attacks against Northern Pakistan.
The expansion means an increase in attacks in North and South Waziristan, and officials hinted at the possibility of striking against Balochistan, a move often spoken of.
Pakistan has publicly objected to the Waziristan strikes, even while it has privately made deals with the US to cooperate in the strikes. Attacking Balochistan, however, would be a game-changer, as the Pakistani government has vowed to stop such strikes.
The US has claimed that the Taliban leadership is in the Baloch capital of Quetta, while the Pakistani government says that there is no evidence the so-called Quetta Shura even exists. Previously the US has suggested a ground invasion of the key city, but even drone strikes will be hugely controversial in a nation whose public has only reluctantly tolerated the Waziristan strikes.
Please donot kill us ,Killing many innocent for sake of a terrorist or two has created hater for USA govt. and USA Army in Pakistanis, stop killing us, and if you think giving aid make you liable of this then pls dnt give us aid.
Drone strike does not hurt the militancy, if the strike kills a few militants it generates hundreds of new ones. As Pakistan is now seeing the backlash of this foolish endeavour. The original excuse given by the Bush administration was to use the strike to kill Ayman AlZwahiri and OBL and for many of the initial strikes it was claimed that alZwahiri just barely escaped the strike. When repeating such statemnts started sounding foolish they simply changed the statement to "an unnamed source claimed that x number of militants were killed". Would they dare to use such strikes if a militant was hiding in NewYork, or even in a small town in Montana?
The sad thing is that the ruling elites of Pakistan just care about how much aid they are getting and are salivating over Kerry-Lugar bill, while innocent people are being killed by the strike and its backlash.