Drone attacks in Pakistan’s tribal areas have reduced since December last year after the US military announced its plans to terminate bases from Afghanistan.
Peter Bergen, who has closely studied drone strikes for the new American Foundation, said that drone attacks in Pakistan seem to have ended.
However, the Obama administration has not entirely ruled out drone strikes in the tribal areas of Pakistan but has pushed the responsibility to the US military, not the CIA, to carry out drone attacks.
The American government has revealed plans to remove American troops out of Afghanistan by the end of 2016.
According to the Dawn, in a major foreign policy speech, Obama said the US would continue to carry out occasional drone strikes against terrorist targets, citing Yemen and Somalia, and not Pakistan, where Hellfire missiles once rained down at a rate of two per week.
The report said that last year the Obama administration reached an informal deal with Pakistan that the CIA would suspend drone strikes, except against the most senior Al Qaeda leaders, while the government of PM Nawaz Sharif pursues peace talks with the Taliban. (ANI)