In a rare incident, a drone fired missiles in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's (K-P) Hangu area, killing eight people. Previously, the strikes were limited to the country's tribal areas.
As US expanded its drone campaign in Pakistan, people reacted against it on Twitter:
When will Pak govt realise US has declared war on Pak with drone attacks? Now expanding this war to KP.R govt & mly sleeping or complicit?
— Shireen Mazari (@ShireenMazari1) November 21, 2013
Suspected US #drone strike on #Pakistan seminary where Siraj Zadran Haqqani was spotted 2 days ago http://t.co/Jtc4L3rdMZ
— Husain Haqqani (@husainhaqqani) November 21, 2013
If we host pepole like OBL,Al Zawehri,S.Haqqani options r B-52 or Drone n drones much better,another chilling reminder to chnge our policy
— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) November 21, 2013
Hangu Drone Strike in KP is a further escalation into Pak territory. Week kneed leadership will enslave us.We beggars cant stand up Shameful
— Dr. Arif Alvi (@ArifAlvi) November 21, 2013
https://twitter.com/nadeemmalik/status/403391977267294208
This morning's drone strike in Hangu is not exactly a love letter from the US to the Nawaz Sharif government.
— Bina Shah (@BinaShah) November 21, 2013
https://twitter.com/MinallahAthar/status/403368124440793088
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@Jaodat Mand Khan: sir, the government has released official figures ( and presented the same to National Assembly) and less than 3% of the people killed are civilians in these drone strikes. The sovereignty of the country is being violated by these terrorist who do not respect our borders and our laws. If we are getting help from USA in getting rid of them then we should welcome it.
No independent country can tolerate such attacks. Either we have to admit our failure in maintaining independence or we have to say NO to drones from USA.
@khurram: Really?ANd your brave and gutsy warriors alias would-be martyrs specifically target their own people and in crowded places to cause maximum mayhem.They should get taghmas-e-imtiaz from the government,right?
@Aamer No brainer from you. You seems to be neither a Muslim nor a Pakistani. The 4 children killed in Hangu drone attack have no blood on their hands- neither Americans nor Pakistanis
Terrorists blow up mosques and kill innocent people, we don't care. Drone kill these terrorists, now we have a problem.
Exactly in which direction Pakistan is moving? We (our leaders, army, and us) rarely make any noise against terrorism but cry for the dead terrorists in the name of sovereignty.
If Pakistani govt doesn't do anything to stop spreading worldwide terrorism, the whole world will unite and FIX our problems via drones or other means. We have very few friends left in the world!
@Unknown Muslim
If my country was full of a bunch of insane terrorists that part of my government secretly supported and didn't have the means to get rid of I would ABSOLUTELY be in favor of a foreign power droning my country. The amount of innocents killed by these attacks is grossly exaggerated anyway. The drone strikes will continue until the people of pakistan unite and make a real effort to exterminate these killers from there own back yard.
Using Drones to kill Militants or Terrorist is a cowardly act, Well if you are a super power and have the guts send your soldiers , Marines or special forces and try to arrest or kill the militants. Clearly you are a gutless force, safely trying to fight militants from thousands of miles away.
@Aamer: How do you know? Or have we accepted that we are savages like terrorists, killing on suspicions and assumptions without due judicial process?
Majority of Pakistanis including MNAs and MPAs support drone strikes - however they don't express it openly because afraid of mullahs and terrorists.
@ashish: US should also drone strike your country then u understand what is it.
Y not we invest in deprived people to bring as per Lahore and Karachi and Islamabad. We should not control Killers and crimenals by drone strike we should deal criminals with the help of police if we keep continue ignore police by this our police would not improve. They will get more worst and get dependent to drone strikes rather to make any effort to eliminate killer by procedure.
Our militry is still sleeping as it was on may 2011. We Pakistanis never learns from past.
Reply to Mr. Aamer and Ashish.
If you want to celebrate such incidents then that day is not far when we will be hearing drone strikes on Peshawar, Quetta and Karachi. Later it will be any city of Pakistan. Its not the duty of US drones to kill those who got blood of Pakeez on their hands. Civilian causalities are more than those TTP guys being killed in these strikes.
US wants to leave Afghanistan with a victory. This can be achieved only by transferring war to other neighboring regions i-e Pakistan, Iran, and India.
This is a total failure of the federal as well as local KPK government, they should be aware of these people.
@Aamer: Are you a Pakistani? Surely not! @ashish: Totally understand where you are coming from...But don't come crying later if an unstable Pakistan destroys India as well...
USA has created difficulty / problems for Nawaz Shariff. Even though unwillingly tough stand has to be taken by him to protect his vote bank which is mostly right wing/ extreme right wing populace.. Internets of USA and Pakistan are different and clashing too. More anti US sentiments will pour in
I cannot understand the indignation people have against Drone strikes. The people being sent to meet their Maker in these strikes have on their hands blood of Pakistani soldiers and civilians. This should be celebrated rather than condemmed