US terror drone kills 10 in Pakistan
At least ten people have been killed in a US assassination drone attack in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region near the Afghan border.
The unmanned aircraft targeted Dar-i-Nishtar residential region in Shawal area, some 70 kilometers (45 miles) west of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan early Saturday, killing ten people and injuring several others. The killing of Pakistani civilians, including women and children, in the US drone strikes have strained relations between the two allies, prompting Pakistani officials to send warnings to the US administration over the assaults. In a recent reaction to drone strikes, Pakistani Foreign Ministry summoned political counselor at the US embassy Jonathan Pratt to lodge a formal protest over an assassination drone attack on a school in North Waziristan in late in April that left three civilians dead. The US says the operations target militants, although surveys show most of the victims are civilians. According to a Pakistani human rights lawyer, Shahzad Akbar, over 2,800 of the 3,000 people killed over the past seven years in US drone strikes in Pakistan were civilians.