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ACTIVISTS warned yesterday that people in Pakistan who live under the threat of US drone strikes see a double standard at work in Washington.
Last week President Barack Obama took the unusual step of apologising for a drone strike that killed US citizen Warren Weinstein and Italian aid worker Giovanni Lo Porto.
The US said their families would be compensated.
Director of Amnesty International’s security and human-rights programme Naureen Shah welcomed the rare public apology but said “apology and redress should be available for all civilians killed in drone strikes, not just US citizens and Europeans.”
Pakistani lawyers representing the families of at least 50 victims questioned why they don’t also warrant apologies and compensation.
US national security council spokesman Edward Price claimed that “there have been very few cases of civilian casualties.”
However, Pakistani Foreign Office spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam said “estimates put the number around 1,500 dead and thousands injured or maimed.”
