Pakistan has called at the United Nations for immediate halt to the U.S. drone strikes on its soil through urgent and intense dialogue. Speaking during a UN Security Council debate on the situation in Afghanistan‚ Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United Nations Masood Khan said drone strikes infringe the country’s sovereignty‚ violate international law and cause […]
Pakistan Friday condemned a latest American drone strike in the country’s tribal region and warned that such strikes set “dangerous precedents in the inter-state relations.” An American spy aircraft rained missiles into North Waziristan tribal region and killed at least five people early Friday, security officials said. The U.S. unmanned drone fired two missiles at […]
Pakistan on Saturday summoned a top US diplomat and lodged a formal protest over a recent drone strikes which killed nearly seven people. A US spy aircraft fired missiles on a house in North Waziristan tribal region, which was the second US attack in ten says. Last week a US attack killed six people including […]
Pakistan on Friday opposed U.S. drone strikes hours after President Barack Obama defended the use of controversial drone mission as self-defence against the militants. Addressing the National Defense University in Washington on Thursday President Obama defended the use of drones and said, “We are at war with an organisation that right now would kill […]