{"id":3138,"date":"2013-11-21T07:12:15","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T07:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3138"},"modified":"2013-11-21T07:12:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T07:12:15","slug":"us-drone-attack-kills-six-in-hangu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2013\/11\/21\/3138\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan: US drone attack kills six in Hangu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/droneattacks.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>A US drone killed six people in northwest Pakistan Thursday in only the second such strike outside the country&#8217;s lawless tribal districts, threatening to inflame tensions between Washington and Islamabad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The missile attack targeted a religious seminary that security officials said belonged to the Haqqani network &#8212; blamed for some of the deadliest attacks in neighbouring Afghanistan &#8212; in the Hangu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Earlier this month the network&#8217;s chief financier Nasirudddin Haqqani was gunned down in mysterious circumstances in a village on the edge of Islamabad.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thursday&#8217;s drone strike was the first in the country since Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud was killed in a similar attack in the North Waziristan tribal district on November 1.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">That attack prompted a furious response from Pakistan, with the interior minister accusing Washington of sabotaging fledgling peace efforts with the Taliban and opposition parties calling for a blockade of NATO supply lines to Afghanistan.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;The drone strike targeting the seminary killed six people,&#8221; police official Farid Khan told AFP.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Two local security officials identified two of the dead as Mufti Ahmad Jan and Mufti Hameedullah and said they were both members of the Haqqani network.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;The seminary belonged to one Qari Noor Muhammad, a previously unknown figure. It was not clear if he was present in the seminary at the time of attack&#8221;, an official said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thursday was the first time a US drone hit a district inside Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The only previous strike outside the tribal areas came in Bannu district, a so-called &#8220;frontier region&#8221;.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The number and identity of casualties is often hard to determine because the tribal areas are off-limits to foreign journalists and aid organisations, but the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism estimates deaths at between 2,500 and 3,700.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hundreds of civilians have died in the attacks, according to various estimates, prompting outrage in Pakistan and abroad.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A major report last month from rights campaigners Amnesty International said the US may be guilty of war crimes.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Pakistani government officially condemns drone strikes as a violation of its sovereignty, and last month Sharif urged US President Barack Obama to halt the programme during a meeting in Washington.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Despite their deep unpopularity in Pakistan, the US sees them as a vital tool in the fight against militants in the tribal areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pakistan condemns US drone strike in Hangu<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After the US drone strike in the Hangu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) issued a statement on Thursday condemning the attack.<br \/>\u201cThe government strongly condemns the US drone strike\u2026these strikes are a violation of Pakistan\u2019s sovereignty and territorial integrity,\u201d the release stated.<br \/>There is across the board consensus that the strikes need to end, the release added and went on to mention that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has raised the issue with President Obama during his recent visit to America.<br \/>\u201cSuch strikes also set dangerous precedents in the inter-state relations,\u201d the government asserted in the press release, adding that drone strikes are counter-productive as \u201cthey entail loss of innocent civilian lives and have human rights and humanitarian implications.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Dual Policy\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Thursday, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan had placed responsibility for the drone strike on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif during a press conference in Islamabad, Express News reported.<br \/>Imran questioned why Nawaz has not made a statement on the recent drone strike yet, saying that as the leader of the country he should have been the first to speak up.<br \/>He also told Nawaz not to \u201cplay on both sides of the wicket,\u201d adding that he should give up his \u201cdual policy\u201d of telling the US one thing and Pakistan another.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; line-height: 1.3em;\">Source:<\/span><em style=\"color: #000000; line-height: 1.3em;\"><strong> The Nation &amp; The Express Tribune<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US drone killed six people in northwest Pakistan Thursday in only the second such strike outside the country&#8217;s lawless tribal districts, threatening to inflame tensions between Washington and Islamabad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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