Drone war far from over even after Obama's promise to rein in strikes

NEW YORK: A former Pakistani diplomat has urged the United States to put an end to US drone strikes against suspected terrorists in Pakistan's tribal areas to pave the way for rebuilding the crumbling pillars of tribal authority in an effort to stabilize the restive region.In an opinion piece published in The New York Times on Friday, Dr. Akbar Ahmed, former High Commissioner to Britain and the Islamic Studies chair at American University, noted President Barack Obama's pledge to scale back the strikes, but said the "drone war is alive and well in the remote corners of Pakistan where the strikes have caused the greatest and most lasting damage.""Drone strikes like Wednesday's, in Waziristan, are destroying already weak tribal structures and throwing communities into disarray throughout Pakistan's tribal belt along the border with Afghanistan," Dr. Ahmed wrote."The chaos and rage they produce endangers the Pakistani government and fuels anti-Americanism. And the damage isn't limited to Pakistan. Similar destruction is occurring in other traditional tribal societies like Afghanistan, Somalia and Yemen.The tribes on the periphery of these nations have long struggled for more autonomy from the central government, first under colonial rule and later against the modern state. The global war...

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