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Approximately 4 in 10 Pakistanis believe that US military and financial aid is having a negative impact on their country; only 1 in 10 believes the impact has been positive.

http://www.rt.com/news/pakistan-consider-us-enemy-940/



US pays high price for Pak route cut-off

Moving supplies to NATO troops in Afghanistan via Central Asia costs three times as much as routes through Pakistan, which Islamabad shut seven months ago in anger, a senior US officer said Wednesday.

http://is.gd/H5lADf



97 pct Pakistanis oppose US drone attacks

Ninety-four percent of people believe the attacks kill too many innocent people, the Express Tribune reports.

http://is.gd/5289CL



Musharraf: The U.S. has turned its back on Pakistan

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Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf tells Reuters' Op-ed Editor James Ledbetter that the reason for the change in his country s relationship with the U.S. lies in America s deep ties with India.

http://is.gd/gw3g5D



U.S. Kills 21 people in Pakistan

At least 21 suspected militants including those of foreign origin were killed and three others were wounded in a US missile strike in Pakistan s North Waziristan tribal agency bordering Afghanistan on Friday, said officials.

http://is.gd/8HwXba



Pakistan s oppositions blast govt. over NATO supply routes

Pakistan s mainstream political opposition parties have condemned Islamabad over the reopening of supplies routes for the US-led NATO forces stationed in Afghanistan.

http://is.gd/4Z0xBc



US kills 24 in Pakistan s Wazristan tribal region

Although Pakistan s foreign office stated earlier this week that drone strikes were counter-productive and were a violation of the country s sovereignty, the US has rejected calls to stop the attacks.

http://is.gd/PnGMTA



People need to know identities of those killed in drone strikes: Imran

Chairman Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf Imran Khan has strongly condemned US drone strike in N Waziristan which killed 24 people. Imran Khan stated that the latest drone attack speaks volumes about the so called ''close working partnership'' between Pakistan and the United States in the ongoing war.

http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=163850



Pakistani party alliance urges mass participation in anti-NATO march

An alliance of dozens of religio-political parties on Saturday appealed to the masses to participate in a long-march against the government s decision to restore supply line for NATO forces in Afghanistan.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-07/07/c_123384014.htm



US kills at least 21 people in Pakistan

The initial strike on a house killed nine. Then three others were killed in a second attack when they drove to the site to recover dead bodies. And a third drone killed another three five minutes later, a senior security official in Peshawar told the AFP news agency.

http://is.gd/gMooqF



Drone attacks not okayed by Pakistan: Sherry

Pakistan s ambassador to the United States Sherry Rehman said that Pakistan has not okayed any American drone strikes on its territory in exchange for Washington s apology over the Salala attacks and continues to deem unilateral unmanned aerial attacks as violation of the international law.

http://is.gd/HYEQDf



US drone attacks in Pak tribal belt 'insane', 'immoral': Imran Khan

He urged the public to engage in a debate on what he claimed was a form of extra-judicial killing that continues unchallenged despite outrage by human rights groups and the people who live in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas that stretch along Pakistan s border with Afghanistan.

http://is.gd/KlSG42


From Information Clearing House

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Pakistan: US drone strike kills eight

Rapid City Journal

07/01/12

U.S. missiles fired from a drone in a Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border killed eight suspected militants early Sunday, officials said, as the controversial American strikes continue despite Islamabad s persistent demands that they stop. The latest attack killed fighters loyal to militant commander Hafiz Gul Bahadur, the officials said...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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