The National Assembly session on Friday opened amid loud sloganeering and disturbances from the opposition after reports emerged of an alleged drone attack on a wedding ceremony in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa earlier in the day. Chaired by Deputy Speaker Syed Ghulam Mustafa Shah, the meeting quickly descended into chaos as opposition lawmakers shouted during question time. The Deputy Speaker refused to allow any points of order, which gave rise to further commotion. Speaking, PTI leader and former National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser said: "A drone attack took place today at a wedding ceremony," added that the strike took place exactly when a major peace jirga was underway in KP, which had just issued a 15-point declaration. Terming the incident as an insult to the province, he said it was an affront to the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. "We had already said that drone strikes in populated areas are unacceptable."
Jamal Kakar, who also addressed the house, said that the people of Balochistan were living in the "a state of extreme distress" and lamented that all routes were blocked and mobile signals were shut down. Later, the NA was eventually postponed indefinitely. Later, in a press conference, PTI leader Iqbal Afridi revealed that a drone strike had hit his constituency last night. He added that the attack took place at a time when all stakeholders and leaders were present in KP. Afridi said security operations were underway in the tribal districts and demanded the formation of a commission. "There are injured people in hospitals; tell us which of them are terrorists," he said. "If even one of them is not a terrorist, what was the purpose of this drone attack?"
He warned that if no militant presence was established, he would register an FIR against the federal government. "We are soldiers of Imran Khan and we are citizens of this country," he said. "This country is dear to us and we are ready to give our lives for it."
A wedding party in Khyber district’s Tirah Valley came under attack late Tuesday night after an explosive round was fired from a quadcopter drone, injuring eight people, including children, police said. According to officials, the incident took place around 01:00 in the Shalobar area of Tirah, where a drone reportedly approached the site and fired a projectile directly at the gathering. The explosion left eight people injured, several of them children. The injured were shifted to Peshawar for medical treatment. Police said the drone fled in an unknown direction after the attack. Law enforcement and intelligence officials have launched an investigation into the incident. Officials said the wider Tirah region hosts a significant presence of militants and intelligence-based operations are conducted in the area from time to time.
