According to the Long War Journal, 138 civilians and more than 2,000 Al-Qaeda and Taliban members have been killed in these attacks.

Since the Pakistani army has prohibited the independent media from entering and thus properly covering the FATA war, we have no choice but to take anyone's word for whatever is going on over there.

However, every second day, we hear about Egyptian, Palestinian, Uzbek, Chechen, Kashmiri, Punjabi, Uyghr and other foreign terrorists dying there in these drone attacks and it makes one wonder how they all got there in the first place. Now given how these terrorists have made life unbearably miserable for the local Mehsud and Wazir tribesmen, it's not such a bad thing that the US is eliminating these terrorists with its own resources.

The only thing Pakistan has to do to end these drone strikes is by entering North Waziristan instead of making cowardly peace deals with hardened terrorists and either flushing the terrorists out of there or prove to the world that there are no terrorists there. The ball is in our court.

Many Pakistanis, especially Imran Khan's supporters, often criticize these drone attacks for two reasons:

1) These drones infringe on Pakistan's sovereignty.
2) These drone attacks cause civilian casualties.

My questions for these people are:

1) Don't these militant groups such as Gul Bahadur's militia, Sirajudin Haqqani's groups, Hekmatyaar's groups, Mullah Nazir's groups, etc, who create virtual no-go areas where Pakistani civilians and military personnel cannot even enter without taking prior permission from these warlords also infringe on Pakistan's sovereignty?

2) Don't the Pakistani military operations all over FATA and KPK cause more civilian casualties and damage to property than these precision drone attacks? After all, these drones fire a single missile at a specific target and that projectile is barely the length of an arm whereas the Pakistani army uses heavy artillery and carpet bombing in civilian areas. If the lives of innocent civilians are precious, why is Imran Khan silent on this?