Our Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar justifies the US drone attacks (see the papers of May 17). That should be enough to satisfy an ordinary Pakistani like me. For me, the thing of greater interest is the one that pertains to development projects that US plans to do in Balochistan and wants a consulate opened in Quetta to supervise them. I think our friends would be spending a lot of money. I also have a feeling that the time US starts financing the FATA projects is also not very far off. -Z. A. KAZMI, Karachi, May 17.