Pakistan Watch

A few posts back we said that we should be watching for nasty developments between USA and Pakistan.

Today we see this little snippet at the top of Google News;

Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- A U.S. drone strike killed six suspected militants Sunday night in northwest Pakistan, two Pakistani intelligence officials told CNN.

The drone strike targeted an alleged militant hideout in a village in South Waziristan, one of seven districts in Pakistan's tribal region along the Afghan border, the officials said.

The attack was the first in a month in Pakistan, one of the longest stretches without a strike from the unmanned drones over the past two years.

It was also the first since an American official shot and killed two Pakistani men in Lahore on January 27, sparking a diplomatic face-off between Islamabad and Washington.

See it here; http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/02/20/pakistan.drone.strike/

Notice that the article mentions the growing tension that has resulted from the U.S. embassy diplomat killing two Pakistanis.

What's it all mean? I don't know...we will have to watch and wait.

For the details of the shootout that happened in the streets of Pakistan see this detailed article. It's right out of a James Bond movie.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/20/cia-agent-lahore-civilian-deaths