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May 23rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The strike was the third since Pakistan’s parliament in March approved new
guidelines on relations with the United States, including a call for an end
to drone strikes on Pakistani territory.
It also came a day after a Nato summit on Afghanistan concluded in Chicago.
Pakistan says the drone strikes are counter-productive and undermine
government efforts to separate tribes from the militants, violate Pakistan’s
sovereignty, kill civilians and fuel anti-US sentiment.
Washington and Islamabad are uneasy allies and are still taking steps to
repair a serious crisis in relations over last year’s covert American raid
that killed Osama bin Laden and November US air strikes that killed 24
Pakistani soldiers.
In retaliation, a furious Islamabad closed the Pakistani-Afghan border to NATO
supply trucks, ruling out the port of Karachi as a way to ship goods to the
130,000 US-led international troops fighting insurgents in Afghanistan.
The move has forced Nato to rely on longer, more expensive northern routes
through Russia and Central Asia, even as it plans a large-scale withdrawal
of combat troops and hardware from Afghanistan by the end of 2014.
Deadlock over the blockade distracted from the Nato summit, even though US and
Pakistani leaders expressed optimism that a deal will soon be reached.
US officials have so far rejected Pakistani proposals to charge several
thousand dollars for each alliance truck crossing the border, and Washington
also refuses to issue an explicit apology for the November air raid.
The frequency of the drone strikes has diminished in recent months, but US
officials are believed to consider them too useful to stop altogether.
President Barack Obama in January confirmed for the first time that US drones
target militants on Pakistani soil, but American officials do not discuss
details of the covert programme.
According to an AFP tally, 45 US missile strikes were reported in Pakistan’s
tribal belt in 2009, the year Obama took office, 101 in 2010 and 64 in 2011.
The New America Foundation think tank in Washington says drone strikes have
killed between 1,715 and 2,680 people in Pakistan in the past eight years.
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