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Voice of America
April 4, 2018
Pakistani officials say Russia and Pakistan are also in talks for potential multi-billion-dollar energy deals, while Moscow will also build a gas pipeline linking the ... Islamabad maintains it was also able to persuade the insurgents to return to the negotiating table the following year, but a U.S. drone strike killedÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
April 4, 2018
Since then, the U.S. has conducted at least 430 drone strikes in Pakistan, according to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, and the Pakistani military has ... Crawford and the Costs of War program at Boston University estimated the number of Pakistanis killed at about 61,300 through August 2016, basedÃâà...
Inkstick
April 4, 2018
One 13-year-old Pakistani, who survived a US drone strike, told Congress, “I no longer love blue skies. In fact, I now prefer grey skies. The drones do not fly when the skies are grey.” Just last week, The Intercept reported that US drone strikes killed seven Yemeni civilians, including one child who was onlyÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
April 3, 2018
Quetta, where Monday's attacks took place, is the capital of the western Pakistani region of Baluchistan. The city lies close to the border with Afghanistan. Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour was killed in a drone strike near Quetta in 2016. Pakistan was one of the largest recipients of American aid untilÃâà...
Mintpress News
April 3, 2018
I turn now to Afghan and Pakistani deaths in the ongoing 2001 U.S. intervention in Afghanistan. In part two, I will examine U.S.-caused war deaths in Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen. According to Ret. U.S. General Tommy Franks, who led the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan in reaction to 9/11, theÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
March 26, 2018
The options under consideration include revoking Pakistan's status as a major non-NATO ally, permanently cutting off the U.S. military aid that was suspended two months ago, and even imposing visa bans or other sanctions on individuals in the Pakistani government deemed responsible for providingÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
March 26, 2018
It was the first drone strike of Trump's presidency and the first after a 10-month lull. Since then, there have been 11 more drone strikes in Pakistan, targeting Haqqani, Afghan Taliban, and Pakistani Taliban militants, according to news reports and counterterrorism experts. Those strikes, while seeminglyÃâà...
New York Times
March 8, 2018
Researchers at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in London estimated that American drone strikes in Pakistan from 2009 to 2015 killed 256 to 633 civilians and 1,822 to 2,761 militants. I witnessed my first drone strike when I was home for summer holidays in 2009. One night I was sleeping on a cotÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 8, 2018
Prominent TTP commander Gul Muhammad and fidayeen trainer Yaseen were also killed in the strike, Pakistani newspaper Dawn reported. Pakistan has often accused US and Afghan forces of not doing enough to target TTP forces resident on the Afghan side of the volatile Pakistan-Afghanistan border,Ãâà...
Geo News, Pakistan
March 7, 2018
The terrorists reportedly belonged to the proscribed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Among those killed was an individual responsible for training suicide attackers, Ustad Yaseen, and multiple suicide bombers. Those killed in Wednesday's drone strike reportedly belonged to the Swat area of Pakistan.
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