Wajahat Khan a
journalism fellow at Harvard University Kennedy School of government cites two
possible reasons for the resumption of U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan after a
two-month lull.
“One theory is
that the insurgency … who have been targeted in the past by these drone strikes,
have used this lull to their advantage. The tensions between the U.S. and
Pakistan have created sort of a vacuum for them to operate and they have done
two major assaults against the Pakistanis,” Khan told Press TV's U.S. Desk in an
interview on Wednesday.
“The other
theory is that the Pakistani military has been castigated in public by this
government and because of that castigation of being on back foot because of the
public criticism, the Americans may have upped the ante … Interestingly today,
the Pakistani government has not issued any statements against the U.S. for the
drone strike,” he added
RH/KA