Tag: Drone
Petition challenges govt’s complicity and inaction over drone attacks
In a bid to force the US government to halt drone attacks in North Waziristan and provide compensation to the drone attack victims, two...
Pakistani students win int’l award with film on drone attacks
A short film by two Pakistani students on US drone attacks in Pakistan and their impact on society has won an international film award,...
US just won’t rein in its drones
At least nine suspected militants were killed and three others injured when a US drone fired two missiles on a compound in Dray Nishtar...
Pakistan repeats objection to drone attacks
Pakistan has once again told the United States to respect its sovereignty, pointing out that the drone strikes are illegal, counterproductive and violate the...
US-Afghan pact ‘does not rule out drone strikes’
The pact between the United States and Afghanistan could leave the door open for continued drone strikes against insurgent targets in Pakistan after...
Drone strikes are legal, ethical: Obama aide
US President Barack Obama has ordered more openness about the secretive drone war pounding Al-Qaeda in Pakistan, a top official said, mounting the firmest...
US snubs Pakistan’s opposition to drone strikes
Just as Pakistan condemned the United States for carrying out the first drone strike in its lawless North Waziristan tribal region since the approval...
4 militants killed in US drone strike in Miranshah
A U.S. drone strike killed four suspected militants in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region near the Afghan border on Sunday, intelligence officials and witnesses...
US drone attacks from Afghanistan to end after 2014: Afghan minister
Foreign Minister Zalmay Rasool said on Thursday Afghanistan would not be used as a launch pad for US drones attacks on neighboring countries after...
MPs link restoring NATO supplies with end to drone attacks
A dull session of the parliament on Friday urged the government to link restoration of NATO supplies to Afghanistan to end to US drone...
4 militants killed in US drone strike in Miranshah
A U.S. drone strike killed four suspected militants and wounded three others on Friday in Miranshah, intelligence officials and militants said.
The remotely piloted aircraft...
US drone strikes in sharp decline in Pakistan
The past year has seen the number of CIA drone strikes in Pakistan plummet, according to statistics collected by New America Foundation’s Peter Bergen...
Lawmakers back new rules of engagements with US
Lawmakers Friday met Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani and supported the government move for new rules of engagements between Pakistan and the US.
They...
US proposes slashing drone ‘target list’ to settle issue
In a bid to resolve the thorny issue of drone strikes with Pakistan, the United States has proposed slashing the ‘target list’ for these...
US supports ‘mutual respect’ with Pakistan
The United States said Tuesday it supported calls by Pakistan for mutual respect but held off a formal response to a parliamentary demand for...
Long-awaited US review likely next week
A joint session of parliament tasked with reviewing and formally resetting troubled relations with the United States could start as early as Monday, an...
US drone strike kills 5 militants in Waziristan: officials
A US drone strike killed five militants on Tuesday, targeting a vehicle travelling through Taliban and Al-Qaeda infested tribal belt on the Afghan border,...
