Local panic: Fear grips Hangu after attack
Resident says the attack had caused panic and sowed fear among the local residents.
Resident says the attack had caused panic and sowed fear among the local residents. PHOTO: AFP/FILE
PESHAWAR:
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.
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.