Commenting on the report published in the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
on Tuesday, a front man for the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said "such an accusation is a distortion of the facts and seems to be aimed at diluting Pakistain's stance on drone strikes."
Local and international media had reported two suspected US drone strikes in the North and South
Wazoo tribal regions in early February.According to Dawn reports, the first strike on Feb 6 targeted a suspected compound in North Waziristan agency killing three unidentified people. The second strike on Feb 8 carried out on the border of the North and South Waziristan tribal regions was reported to have targeted a compound owned by a local Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) commander.
Intelligence officials said the Feb 8 attack killed eight turbans, including two Al Qaeda men. The rest, sources said, were local TTP fighters.
However,
some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them...
the report published by the New York Times today quoted unnamed US intelligence officials as denying the US carried out the attacks and instead accused Pak forces of carrying out the strikes.
Rejecting the report, the ISPR front man denied Pakistain's security forces having carried out any operation, including air strikes, in the area on dates mentioned in the news report.