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Pakistan summons US envoy over drone strikes
Pakistan's foreign ministry has summoned a senior US diplomat to lodge a formal protest over a series of drone strikes in its volatile tribal regions.
There have been eight drone attacks in Pakistan's north-western tribal territory over the past two weeks.
US officials say a strike on Monday targeted al-Qaeda's second-in-command, Abu Yahya al-Libi, but it is unclear if he was among 15 killed in the assault.
Pakistan's call for an end to strikes comes amid a rift with Washington.
Tension between the reluctant allies has been intensified by a dispute over Pakistan's closure of supply routes to Nato troops in Afghanistan, after a Nato air strike along the Afghan border killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18331827
I really can't find any disagreement with the infuriated Pakistanis regarding the issue of drone-strike slaughters.
If a foreign power decided to ruthlessly slaughter US citizens on US soil based on suspicion and no trial, I'm 100% certain that there would be numerous demonstrations in the streets with protesters burning the flag of the foreign power committing the drone strikes and demanding and end to the deaths and destruction which have caused so much suffering.
