We are 'Slaves to America'

The fact that our Afghan policy is in shambles is shown by reports that on the same day, while four of our soldiers were killed by a militant suicide bomber, one was killed in a border post by US-led coalition forces. Thus our army is at the same time under attack from the militants and the coalition forces. The suicide bomber attacked a military convoy near the town of Mir Ali.

The fifth soldier to die was killed when gunship helicopters from the US-led coalition forces bombed Zoeba security check-post in the Shawal area of North Waziristan near the Pak-Afghan border. Many tribesmen believe the suicide attack was in retaliation for last week’s air strikes in Shak Toi area in which eight tribesmen were killed.

The Pakistan army claimed responsibility for the air strikes, but most people blamed the US military for attacking the remote Jamazola village using its pilotless Predator spy plane.

Pakistan’s initial protest against the killing of our soldier was so weak as to be hardly a protest. “In an unfortunate incident close to the Pak Afghan border, Coalition Forces mistakenly fired upon one our posts near Shawal, North Waziristan agency” said the Inter Services Public Relations statement.