Pak parliament to discuss US missile attacks

Pakistan's parliament will hold a session next week to talk about United States missile attacks on militant targets in the northwest of the country, defence minister Ahmed Mukhtar said yesterday.
Washington has apparently stepped up missile strikes from unmanned drones against suspected al-Qaeda and Taliban hideouts in tribal areas despite protests from Islamabad that such action violates international law and could deepen resentment of the US in the world's second-largest Islamic nation.
"We have summoned a session of the parliament on December 2 in which we'll discuss the violations (by the US drones) of Pakistan's territory, which is an important issue," Mukhtar told reporters at the country's international defence exhibition in the port city of Karachi.