US drone strike kills six, injures 8 in Tal

[ExtraOdinary]

2 senior leaders of haqqani network got smoked

 

[Leader]

IK saying we will give u name and there pictures who have died in todays drone attack 4 childrens 2 teacher been killed #PTI #Hangu

IK saying we will give u name and there pictures who have died in todays drone attack 4 childrens 2 teacher been killed #PTI #Hangu

 

[[Bregs]]

Very messy situation in this part looks like no serious unanimity between Pakistan and US govts but few of these attacks are killing prized terrorists too. killing of innocents is very unfortunate and unacceptable though.

 

[haviZsultan]

We should be eliminating these militants. US shouldn't come around and do the job for us. We have to work hard to eliminate the militants utterly. It is especially stupid that despite the killings of 50000 soldiers and civilians we are still not ready to face the Taliban threat in unision.

Terrorists have caused severe damage to Pakistan. They have destroyed entire households and completely destroyed Pakistan's foreign policy plans. We have no foreign policy today only because of the militants, because when things are not okay at home you don't have the credibility to be believed by the rest of the world. We cannot protect our citizens from RAW because we are too fearful of terrorists at home. Our priorities have changed. Rather than pushing the Kashmir issue we have to sit back and try and improve things domestically.

We Pakistanis should make some solid efforts to bring criminals, militants and other forms of terrorists to justice. Only then can we develop a foreign policy that guards our interests globally.

As far as the drone strikes are concerned, in the current situation and context, I support them if they target Omer Khalid, Fazlullah, Shaheen Bhittani and other terrorist commanders.

 

[PlanetWarrior]

We should be eliminating these militants. US shouldn't come around and do the job for us. We have to work hard to eliminate the militants utterly. It is especially stupid that despite the killings of 50000 soldiers and civilians we are still not ready to face the Taliban threat in unision.

Terrorists have caused severe damage to Pakistan. They have destroyed entire households and completely destroyed Pakistan's foreign policy plans. We have no foreign policy today only because of the militants, because when things are not okay at home you don't have the credibility to be believed by the rest of the world. We cannot protect our citizens from RAW because we are too fearful of terrorists at home. Our priorities have changed. Rather than pushing the Kashmir issue we have to sit back and try and improve things domestically.

We Pakistanis should make some solid efforts to bring criminals, militants and other forms of terrorists to justice. Only then can we develop a foreign policy that guards our interests globally.

As far as the drone strikes are concerned, in the current situation and context, I support them if they target Omer Khalid, Fazlullah, Shaheen Bhittani and other terrorist commanders.

I didn't read of any RAW launched drone strikes against Pakistan. Any chance to bogey India and you guys jump for it eh ?

Now why would you support the drone strikes of the USA in Pakistan?? Can't the Pakistani military (world's 7th largest army) and intelligence agencies handle the terrorists on its own? Or was your military and intelligence agencies established solely for defending Pakistan against India? After all these are Pakistani domestic terrorists. Why you would support a clear infringement of your sovereignty totally baffles me. Then again, perhaps you are too busy watching a perceived threat from the east whilst you are being attacked from the west without even realizing it

 

[Leader]

some terrorists checking out damage a drone strike did to their school.

 

[Sugarcane]

Drone are not going to stop until traitors are on key positions in this country.


R.I.P.....

 

[Tayyab1796]

I thought Sartaj Aziz was an honest man ...I was sooooooooooo bloody wrong

 

[Leader]

 

[janon]

You guys are ignoring one fact, that three talibs were killed in this strike. Yes, innocents may also have died, but frankly you should be angry at the talibs for hiding in a seminary or school where children are present. The US can only do so much while killing them - the missile targeted precisely the room they were in, leaving other parts of the seminary untouched.

The taliban have themselves confirmed the death of at least one of their operatives.

You guys do realize that you are at war with them, right? And if pak army launched an offensive there to kill these people, do you think not a single innocent would die, especially given how these talibs live and work in civilian centers like schools and mosques?

I'm afraid you will have to accept the civilian deaths as part of the price for a war in your country, the one against the TTP. Sounds harsh, but unless pakistan devises a way to kill them with no civilian casualties...

But yes, condolences to the innocents. It's not their fault that taliban aides were living or meeting in their school. For which you ought to be angry at the talibs.

Drone strike in KP kills five - DAWN.COM

PESHAWAR: A US drone strike in the Tal area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Hangu district killed at least five people, including a senior member of the Taliban-linked Haqqani network, and injured another early on Thursday.
The drone fired three missiles targeting a seminary near Tandharo village, a few yards from Tehsil Tal's main Tal bazaar, which lies within the settled areas of the province. The room targetted by the drone was destroyed in the strike leaving the remaining space of the seminary undamaged.
Those killed in the attack included three teachers of the seminary. The teachers were identified as Abdul Rehman, Maulvi Ahmed Jan and Mufti Hamidullah Haqqani.
Sources told Dawn.com that the clerics of the seminary were believed to be associated with the Taliban-affiliated Haqqani network.
Meanwhile, Reuters reported that a source with Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security intelligence agency in Kabul said that Jan was an adviser to Sirajuddin Haqqani, the chief of the Haqqani network.
Separately, a Pakistani intelligence source told Reuters that Sirajuddin was spotted at the targeted seminary two days earlier.
Taliban sources also confirmed Jan’s death but the Haqqani network itself was not immediately available for comment.
District Police Officer (DPO) Iftikhar Ahmed said the strike had left five people dead, and another person injured. Other sources said the death toll had reached eight but the claims could not be verified.
Drones continued to hover above the area after the incident, locals reported.
Pakistan condemns strike
Pakistan strongly condemned the drone strike reiterating its stance that the strikes violate the country’s “sovereignty and territorial integrity”.
Foreign Office Spokesman Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry in a statement said “there is an across the board consensus in Pakistan that these drone strikes must end”.
The spokesman said the government had been raising its concern over drone strikes with the US administration and at the United Nations.
He said the prime minister during his recent visit to the US had raised the issue with President Barack Obama and other senior US leaders.
The spokesman said it has been consistently maintained that drone strikes are counter-productive, entail loss of innocent civilian lives and have human rights and humanitarian implications. Such strikes also set dangerous precedents in the inter-state relations.
He said these strikes have a negative impact on the government’s efforts to bring peace and stability in Pakistan and in the region.
The last drone strike in the country was conducted on Nov 1 killing chief of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Hakimullah Mehsud, in the North Waziristan tribal region.
Today’s drone strike was the first by the US to occur outside Pakistan's remote tribal region, after the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf (PTI) came to power in the province. The latest attack could increase tensions between Islamabad and Washington.
The only other drone attack in the settled areas of KP was carried out in Bannu district in Nov 2008.
Thursday’s attack comes a day after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's Adviser on Foreign Affairs and National Security Sartaj Aziz said the US had assured Pakistan of not conducting drone strikes targeting the leaders of TTP if dialogue began between them and the Pakistani government.

 

[RPK]

U.S. drone kills senior militant in Pakistani seminary| Reuters


(Reuters) - A suspected U.S. drone strike on an Islamic seminary in Pakistan killed a senior member of the Taliban-linked Haqqani network early on Thursday, Pakistani and Afghan sources said.

It was the first drone strike in the nuclear-armed South Asian nation since Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud was killed on November 1 in an attack that sparked a fierce power struggle within the fragmented insurgency.

Maulvi Ahmad Jan, an adviser to Sirajuddin Haqqani, the feared head of the Taliban-linked Haqqani network, was in the madrassa when at least three rockets hit his room in the Hangu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa just before sunrise.

"Yes it's true, we lost another valuable figure this morning," a senior Haqqani official told Reuters.

A Pakistani intelligence source said that Sirajuddin Haqqani himself was spotted at the same seminary just two days earlier.

The group is one of the main enemies of U.S.-led forces in neighboring Afghanistan, frequently launching attacks on foreign troops from mountainous hideouts in Pakistan's lawless North Waziristan region.

But it has been under considerable strain this month since its chief financier, Nasiruddin Haqqani, was shot dead in Islamabad on November 11. No one claimed responsibility for that shooting.

A source with Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security intelligence agency confirmed Jan's death. At least four other people also died in the attack but dozens of students sleeping in other rooms were unhurt, police and militant sources said.

Washington has long urged Islamabad to crack down on the group. Nasiruddin's father was once an ally of the United States during the rebellion in Afghanistan against the Soviets.

Pakistan publicly opposes U.S. drone strikes, saying they kill too many civilians and violate its sovereignty, although in private officials admit the government broadly supports them.

Thursday's missiles hit only two of the nine rooms in the seminary where Jan was staying with several other militants.

"Only the two rooms where Maulvi Ahmad Jan and other Afghan Taliban leaders were staying were hit by the drone. The remaining seven rooms remained intact," a local resident said.

Most drone strikes occur in the lawless North Waziristan region where Taliban insurgents are holed up, and are rare in densely populated places such as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The attack took place a day after Pakistan's foreign policy chief Sartaj Aziz was quoted as saying the United States had promised not to conduct drone strikes while the government tries to engage the Taliban in peace talks.

The United States has not commented on Aziz's remarks.

 

[Imran Khan]

karachi lahore peshawer per kab hai drone shareef ka hamla shareef ?