Tag: Pakistan
Speen Drand (Khyber Agency) Drone Strike – Dec 2010
Date: 16/12/2010 Location: Khyber Agency, FATA, Pakistan Perpetrators: United States Victims: 7 killed What Happened? 16 December 2010: US drones fired two missiles at a vehicle in the Speen Drand area of Tirah Valley in Khyber Agency. Western intelligence claims that this attack led to the death of 7 militants. However, there is no known…
Ragha (Khyber Agency) Drone Strikes – May 2010
Date: 15/05/2010 Location: Ragha, FATA, Pakistan Perpetrators: United States Victims: 23 killed, 15 injured What Happened? 15 May 2010: A series of four US drone missiles struck the Ragha area (Landi Kotal tehsil) of the Khyber Agency in FATA. The first missile hit a supposed gathering of people at night. The second and third missiles…
Raymond Davis Killings – Jan 2011
Date: 27/01/2011 Location: Lahore, Pakistan Perpetrators: United States Victims: 3 civilians killed What Happened? 27 January 2011: Armed with unlicensed weapons and living in unregistered safe houses, CIA agent Raymond Davis shot and killed two young men on a motorbike from inside his car. He then proceeded to trample through traffic to evade arrest from…
Datta Khel Drone Strike – March 2011
Date: 17/03/2011 Location: North Waziristan, Pakistan Perpetrators: United States Victims: 44 killed, 10+ injured What Happened? 17 March 2011: A tribal jirga (meeting of elders) scheduled to debate a local business dispute was struck by missiles fired from American drones. The building hosting the meeting collapsed, leading to the deaths of at least 44 civilians.…
Chenagai School Strike (Bajaur Agency) – Oct 2006
Date: 30/10/2006 Location: Chenagai, Bajaur Agency, Pakistan Perpetrators: United States Victims: 80+ killed, mostly children What Happened? 30 October 2006: Missiles fired from MQ-1 Predator drones struck a madrassa in the Chenagai district of Bajaur Agency (then-Federally administered by Islamabad). The massacre happened in the early hours of the morning, when the school was about…