Multiple choice

Directions: Read the given passage and answer the question that follows:

The US government’s use of drone strikes came under mounting pressure on Friday as Pakistan joined a chorus of criticism over the policy following the accidental killings of two Al-Qaeda hostages: US aid worker Warren Weinstein and Italian national Giovanni Lo Porto. The men were inadvertently killed in CIA drone strike in January near Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the deaths highlight the risk and unintended consequences of the use of drone technology that the country has been highlighting for a long time.

The US government’s use of drone strikes came under mounting pressure due to

  1. the defective drone technology

  2. accidental killings

  3. Pakistan-Afghanistan border

  4. unreliable drone technology
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B Correct answer
Explanation

'...criticism (condemnation) over the policy following the accidental killings of two Al-Qaeda hostages' suggests the answer.

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