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By Dilip Hiro

Cash-strapped Pakistan is humiliatingly dependent on handouts from Washington and US-sanctioned International Monetary Fund loans.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36765.htm



Pakistan: No drones strikes to be allowed after 20th: Imran Khan

PTI chief says KP govt to surely suspend NATO supply lines unless end to drone strikes guaranteed: In passionate speech in the NA, Khan said the KP government would suspend the supply line on November 20, urging Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to seek guarantee from America that no drone strike would jeopardise future peace talks with the Taliban.

http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2013/11/05/news/national/no-drones-to-be-allowed-after-20th-imran/



Will Imran Khan Block NATO Supplies in Pakistan?

Many in Pakistan were outraged last week when a U.S. drone killed militant leader Hakimullah Mehsud, calling the strike yet another example of Washington bulldozing over the nation s sovereignty.

http://world.time.com/2013/11/06/will-imran-khan-block-nato-supplies-in-pakistan/


From Information Clearing House

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Six Months After Obama Promised to Divulge More on Drones, Here s What We Still Don t Know

Cora Currier, ProPublica: Nearly six months ago, President Obama promised more transparency and tighter policies around targeted killings. In a speech, Obama vowed that the United States would use force against only a "continuing and imminent threat to the American people." How much has changed since the president s speech?

http://truth-out.org/news/item/19860-six-months-after-obama-promised-to-divulge-more-on-drones-heres-what-we-still-dont-know

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CIA, not Pentagon, to keep running Obama s drone war

Foreign Policy

11/05/13

In May, the White House leaked word that it would start shifting drone operations from the shadows of the CIA to the relative sunlight of the Defense Department in an effort to be more transparent about the controversial targeted killing program. But six months later, the so-called migration of those operations has stalled, and it is now unlikely to happen anytime soon, Foreign Policy has learned...

http://tinyurl.com/nrlnpyc


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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