The chief of Pakistan's defense committee says Washington put on
hold U.S. drone strikes after the deadly November raid along the Afghan
border so as not to "worsen" the already strained ties with Islamabad.
Javed
Ashraf Qazi said Tuesday he believes the lull in the strikes would at
this point only be broken if there was a confirmed report of a high
profile target.
There hasn't been a missile strike against
militants since the Nov. 26 NATO raid at the Pakistani army border
outpost that killed 24 soldiers. That's according to The Long War
Journal, a website that tracks the strikes.
It says the 33-day
break is the longest ever since the CIA's covert operations began in
2004 against al-Qaida and Taliban militants in Pakistan's tribal regions
along the Afghan border. AP
