Resident says the attack had caused panic and sowed fear among the local residents. PHOTO: AFP/FILE
While local residents tried to pull themselves out of the fear that gripped the area after Thursday’s drone strike, pilotless aerial vehicles still hovered in the air hours after the attack.
“This drone strike has made Sartaj Aziz’s claims seem like a joke,” said a local resident of Thal, Umar Bangash who lives yards away from the site where the drone struck.
Bangash said the attack had caused panic and sowed fear among the local residents.
A local journalist, who wished not to be named, stated that that the families of most of the children hit by the drone strike had migrated from Kurram Agency in search of a safe haven.
“The people are furious after the drone incursion,” he said, adding that the people have now lost all faith in the government that it will provide security to them.
A local PTI leader Shaukat Hayat told The Express Tribune that drones have been hovering in the area since the past three days.
“The children are in a state of shock after the strike,” he said. He added that a girls’ degree college is situated adjacent to the seminary.
In response to the drone strikes the local residents have decided to demonstrate on the Thal road which is one of the main supply routes used by Nato forces in K-P.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 22nd, 2013.
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@Feroz: HMMM, please tell us WHY the "non-Muslim" (according to you) TTP wants to have Sharia made the law of the land in Pakistan, and have an Islamic caliphate set up????
the attack had caused panic and sowed fear among the local residents. - The locals don't fear about the bomb blasts in markets, schools, hospitals, police stations caused by Taliban. a girls’ degree college is situated adjacent to the seminary. - The Taliban which is hiding with the support of local people never allow schools or colleges for girls.
Is anyone planning to demonstrate against the terrorists in their midst, the non Muslim TTP backed by Mossad / RAW / CIA who slaughtered 40,000 innocent citizens, like lambs ?
My dear friends who are advocating drone strikes as best tool and blah blah, let me tell them this fear of insecurity from federal govt is pushing Pashtuns to the wall. I fear for the time when this whole thing will become Punjabi/Pashtun affair. Most of the so called leading terrorists were caught from Punjab but these so called liberals won't advocate drone strikes in their own cities. I just can't believe that people here advocating their own fellow Pakistanis being killed by some other countries. Taliban and U.S are doing same thing but these fake liberals won't condemn the killings by U.S at any cost. Shameful
No place to hide. Drones are illegal, but they are effective. Whether they hide in KP or in Islamabad or elsewhere they will remain a valid target. There is nothing to negotiate with these stone-age animals. So rather than being fearful inform the local authorities of their presence so that they can be taken care of by the legal authorities.
@usman.. I agree. What else do you call a war?
PM Nawaz should resign immediately, interim govt. should send AirForce jets to shoot down any drone anywhere inside Pak Airspace. Our analysts will take another 10 years to realise what has just happened. US has unilaterally declared war on Pakistan, that's what.