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Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar Tuesday said drone attacks on Pakistani territory are violation of international laws and virtually proving counter productive. Speaking in Senate, she said the drone
attacks are against the independence and national security of the country.

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US Drone Attacks Kill Eight In North Waziristan: Officials

''US drones fired missiles on two militant compounds. At least eight militants have been killed.''

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US kills nine people in Pakistan: officials

''Six drones were hovering in the sky at the time of the attack. One drone fired two missiles at a house,'' a security official in Miranshah told AFP.

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Pakistan official admits 20% drone victims are innocent civilians

Pakistan s Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani on Friday admitted that 600 people killed in the country in drone attacks were civillians.

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Pakistan urges US to end drone strikes

Pakistan is holding talks with the United States to end drone strikes against suspected Taliban fighters, which sometimes also kill civilians, a senior Pakistani official has said.

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CIA used ISI facilities in Karachi, says US report

Pakistan extended full cooperation to the CIA in tracing suspected terrorists and provided secret detention and interrogation facilities to the US intelligence agency, says a report.

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Are Pakistanis People?

Op-Ed

Do only American deaths matter? The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence thinks so. During last Thursday s confirmation hearing for John O. Brennan as CIA Director. Not one Committee member asked about the hundreds of innocent Pakistanis, Afghans, Yemenis, Libyans, and Somalis, many of them children, who have lost their lives as ''collateral damage'' in U.S. drone strikes.

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Angry Pakistanis fight to end U.S. drone strikes

Pakistan's high court ruled that drone strikes are illegal and issued a clear order to Pakistan's government. "You have to give a stern warning to the United States, to shut down the drones, and if you don't, you are within your rights under international law to shoot the drones down."

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From Information Clearing House



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