The relatives of a deceased family in North Waziristan have strongly condemned the US attacks on the northwestern tribal region and vowed they would not forgive the murder of their relatives, a Press TV correspondent reported on Friday.
“We will not accept the money,” the tribesmen stated during a Thursday press conference in North Waziristan’s main town of Miranshah, calling on Islamabad to put an end to the unauthorized US airstrikes.
On March 17, more than 40 tribesmen have lost their lives and many more were wounded following a drone attack on a jirga of council of tribal elders in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan.
The Pakistani government has announced 300,000 rupees (USD 3,530) for each of those killed in the strike and 100,000 rupees (USD 1, 171) for the injured.
Islamabad also summoned the US ambassador for a formal protest and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani issued a statement in which he strongly criticized the deadly drone attack in the Pakistani soil.
Thousands of Pakistanis staged a massive demonstration in Miranshah against the non-UN-sanctioned US military operations within the Pakistani borders, while tribal elders vowed revenge at a press conference in the northwestern city of Peshawar.
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