Tag: Drone

US questions Imran on drone opposition

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf Chairman Imran Khan has said that US authorities detained and questioned him at a Canadian airport last week. Imran, a former cricket star,...

Israel doubts Iran has drone data

A senior officer in Israel's northern command on Monday dismissed an Iranian claim they were in possession of data transmitted by an unmanned Hezbollah...

UN to probe civilian deaths from drone strikes

The United Nations is to set up a dedicated investigations unit in Geneva to examine the legality of drone attacks in cases where civilians...

PHC summons Musharraf for ‘allowing drone attacks’

The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Wednesday issued a notice to former president General (r) Pervez Musharraf for allowing drone attacks in the tribal...

US drone kills three in NWA

At least three people, including a woman, were killed and several others injured in a US drone attack in the Tappi area of North...

US drone strike kills three in Miranshah: officials

A US drone fired two missiles on a suspected militant compound in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, killing three people, security officials said. One missile hit...

‘Pakistan can never accord approval to drone operations from its territory’

Calling a statement on drones being referred to the defence secretary totally false, a spokesman of the Ministry of Defence on Tuesday said Pakistan...

Romney or Obama, drone attacks won’t cease !

White House hopeful Mitt Romney on Tuesday said he would maintain drone strikes in Pakistan if he defeated President Barack Obama and would impose...

Hague being taken to court over drone strikes

British Foreign Secretary William Hague is being taken to court amid accusations of being an accomplice in drone strikes that are said to break...

Drone strike in south Yemen kills 7 Al-Qaeda suspects

A drone strike Thursday near the south Yemen city of Jaar killed at least seven Al-Qaeda suspects, a local official told AFP. "A drone, likely...

Drone attacks case: LHC asks govt to present world treaties on...

The Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial, hearing a petition filed by Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) emir Hafiz Muhammad Saeed for stopping drone...

At least 18 perish in deadly drone strike in Orakzai

A US drone on Thursday targeted a religious seminary in the Bulandkhel area of Orakzai Agency near the border with Afghanistan, killing at least...

US drone kills 5 in NWA

At least five suspected militants were killed in a US drone attack on a house in Hurmaz village, near Mirali town of North Waziristan...

US drone strike kills five ‘militants’

A US drone strike targeting a militant compound killed five insurgents in a restive tribal region near the Afghan border on Wednesday, security officials...

­Imran seeks UN help to stop drone attacks in Pakistan

The United Nations (UN) will be requested to intervene for stopping US drone attacks in the Tribal Areas, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan...

Drone attacks’ legality

Several readers have been raising a point on the legal aspects of drone attacks launched by CIA on the Pakistan’s tribal areas. But this...