Peshawar, Jan 12: At least four people have been killed in the latest non-UN-sanctioned US drone attack in the northwest of Pakistan. Over 1,184 people were killed and hundreds injured in a barrage of non-UN-sanctioned US drone strikes in Pakistan in 2010 amid growing discontent over the operations. The yearly report of the Conflict Monitoring Centre (CMC) says that at least 2,043 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in unauthorized US attacks in Pakistan's tribal areas over the past five years. The surge in unauthorized US drone attacks in Pakistan and NATO operations along the border have been heavily criticized by Pakistani officials. Washington claims its aerial assaults target militants that cross the Pakistani border into Afghanistan. But locals say civilians are the main victims of the attacks. Islamabad says the unauthorized strikes are counterproductive and a violation of its sovereignty. Pakistan also strongly condemns the violation of its airspace by US-led forces stationed in Afghanistan.
A recent report by the Brookings Institution also brought the controversial issue of drone attacks under harsher scrutiny. It said the illegal attacks have claimed the lives of
10 civilians for every militant killed in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan.
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