Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs written question – answered at on 16 May 2013.
Nicholas Soames
Conservative, Mid Sussex
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of the effect on public opinion in (a) Afghanistan and (b) Pakistan of unmanned aerial vehicle strikes.
Alistair Burt
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
The FCO has supported opinion surveys which looked at attitudes towards governance, religion and society in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). In 2010 and 2011, these surveys included a question related to “US drone strikes in the FATA”. The proportion of respondents that believed that drone strikes were never justified rose from 59% in 2010 to 63% in 2011. No other assessments of the effect of drone strikes on public opinion have been undertaken by the UK.
Yes2 people think so
No2 people think not
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