Pakistan on Thursday strongly condemned the US drone strike in Tall area of Hangu‚ in which eight people were killed and two others injured.
In a statement‚ Foreign Office spokesperson Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry said these strikes are a violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
He maintained that drone strikes are counter-productive‚ entail loss of innocent civilian lives and have human rights and humanitarian implications. Such strikes also set dangerous precedents in the inter-state relations.
The spokesman said these drone strikes have a negative impact on the Government’s efforts to bring peace and stability in Pakistan and the region.
Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry said Islamabad has been raising its concern over the drone strikes with the US administration and at the United Nations.
He said the Prime Minister during his recent visit to the United States had raised the issue with President Obama and other senior US leaders.
The US drone targeted an Islamic seminary Muktaba Darul uloom in Hangu district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province early on Thursday morning.
It was one of the first drone attacks to occur outside Pakistan’s tribal region along the Afghan border and could increase tension between Islamabad and Washington.