The Foreign Ministry has banned the entry of foreign diplomats into the tribal areas as well as 15 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The ban comes in the wake of the suspicious activities of American covert operatives who were roaming around in these areas raising serious questions about their designs. This curb is also for foreign diplomats own safety because certain foreign powers are known to be fishing in the troubled waters of FATA. Besides, it is in line with our national security requirements, which had been put into jeopardy after the Abbottabad incident. We need to realise that the Americans are no friends of ours and could cause more damage to our national interests. Indeed, for any diplomat to try to defy the ban would only spoil Pakistans relations with his or her country. The recent episode of the American vehicles breaking a security barrier to force their way into Peshawar, a city that has been badly hit by terrorist attacks, is a case in point. Diplomats in fact avoid going to such places and do not behave in the manner in which the Americans did. There is nothing more important for us than national interests and foreign diplomats would have to understand that they cannot be given a carte blanche to move around any place they feel like. One hopes that after such curbs, the next step will be that the government would warn the US to stop drone attacks or else it will start bringing them down.