Drone attacks proving counter-productive: FO

Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit has said that the US has been primed of Pakistans reservations over the drone attacks and it is expected that the policy in this regard would be reviewed. We believe that they are counter-productive and also a violation of our sovereignty, foreign ministry spokesman Abdul Basit told reporters.The spokesman said Pakistan has no agreement with the US over drone attacks; nor could such attacks be justified. We hope that the U.S. will revisit its policy, he said, adding that the scaled up drone war was not serving the larger strategic interests, especially in the context of our efforts to win hearts and minds, which is part and parcel of our strategy against militants and terrorists. Pakistan said the allied forces deployed in Afghanistan have given assurance to Pakistan that territorial sovereignty of the country would be respected during upcoming border actions, Geo News reported Thursday. The Foreign Office spokesman said in his weekly news briefing that the US and the Nato forces assured that Pakistani border would not be violated in future.