Drone victims become political fodder

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Drone victims become political fodder
By Kiran Nazish
Dec 2, '13

I am writing this because a woman who spat on me for wanting to interview her later begged me to answer her questions.

Let's call her "G". Her eldest son was killed in a drone strike in August 2010. She buried him in pieces - hands, fingers, bones. She spoke unclearly of the details between tears. She had moved to Karachi with her husband and other son afterwards, leaving behind their family home in Waziristan due to the growing hold of militants and blatant silence of the Pakistan military.

"It wasn't safe anymore. It wasn't home anymore. We watched terrorists walk freely in our neighborhood, and the military did not protect us." She told me.

Two and a half years later, when they had barely settled in Sohrab Goth, northern Karachi, her husband was killed in a bomb blast in front of her younger son.