The United States has been attacking within Pakistani land with drones for the last four to five years and is also killing innocent people. Our rulers and parliament regard these attacks as attacks on our sovereignty. A minister says that we do protest but the United States does not listen to us. This will mean that if the invader does not listen to you, you should concede and remain silent and should neither retaliate nor defend yourself. There were 44 drone attacks in 2009 alone in which more than 700 innocent people, majority of whom were innocent children, elderly, and women, were killed. According to the statistics provided by various agencies, those who belonged to "Al-Qa`ida" or the Taliban could not be more than 18. Our government kept on expressing fake concern over the killing of hundreds of innocent people and demolition of dozens of localities, and the nation as a whole remained silent. Mian Nawaz Sharif, leader of the opposition, remained so indifferent as though all this was happening not in his own country.