Pakistan: US drone attack kills 7
At least seven people have been killed in a US assassination drone attack on Pakistan’s northwestern tribal belt near the Afghan border, Press TV reports. - The attack occurred on Tuesday when a US unmanned aerial vehicle pounded Sara Khwara in South Waziristan agency. Four others were also injured in the strike, the second such attack on Tuesday. At least nine people were killed earlier in the day when a US drone fired missiles at a vehicle in South Waziristan. The United States has deployed its terror drones to launch airstrikes inside Pakistan's tribal belt, despite repeated protests by government officials in Islamabad who have been demanding an end to the ‘violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty’. Washington claims its drone strikes target militants, although casualty figures clearly indicate that Pakistani civilians are the main victims of the non-UN-sanctioned attacks.