Drone attacks
Intelligence sources have claimed that an increase in strikes by unmanned US drone aircraft on suspected fighters in Pakistan in the past few weeks was part of efforts to thwart the suspected plot.
Frequent attacks by US drone aircraft have been heavily criticised by Pakistani leaders for killing innocent bystanders and infringing upon national sovereignty.
Pakistan publicly condemns the attacks as violations of its sovereignty, and the attacks are unpopular among the Pakistani people.
But the Pakistani government is believed to assist in at least some of the missile attacks, although the US does not publicly acknowledge the existence of the covert, CIA-run operation.
The UN has called for the US to end the CIA’s control over drone attacks, with Philip Alston, the special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, saying that the US spy agency does not provide enough transparency or accountability for the programme.
Alston said that the use of drone attacks risked creating a “Playstation” mentality towards killing, “because operators are based thousands of miles away from the battlefield, and undertake operations entirely through computer screens and remote audio-feed”.
Source: Al Jazeera and agencies
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