Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Qazi Hussain Ahmad condemned the Thursday night missile attack in Bajaur Agency and said it was carried out by US fighter planes. | Right on schedule... |
Qazi said the aerial spy mission was going on for about three days and had worried the area's residents. He said that a foreign media representative told him that American fighter planes were involved in the attack and Bajaur Agency MNA Sahibzada Haroon Rashid told him that he had heard bombing sounds in his house two kilometers from the place of attack. He said 18 bodies were recovered from the debris, including three children and five women and 13 of them belonged to the same family. He denied the government's claim of seizing dead bodies of five foreigners.
He demanded US forces' immediate withdrawal from Afghanistan and Pakistan, and said they had ruined peace in the region and were killing innocent villagers. Qazi warned that the tribal people may react to the 'continuous provocation' to jeopardize Pakistan’s security.