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Britain funding surveys in Pakistan on US drones
Karāchi :: Pakistan | 1 day ago
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Britain has been funding surveys in Pakistan's Tribal Areas which reveal that US drone strikes in the region are causing deep resentment among the local population. Foreign Minister, Alistair Burt, confirmed that the Foreign Office had "supported"
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Sherry Rehman urges trade, end to drone strikes
Karāchi :: Pakistan | 2 days ago
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Pakistan's outgoing ambassador to the United States Sherry Rehman has said the Pakistan and the United States have improved their ties considerably from a low-point in 2011 but asked Washington to end drone strikes in the tribal areas in order to
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Policy on drone strike authorization doesn't need to change, Defense official says
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 3 days ago
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In my judgement, Sheehan said in testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee, this is going to go on for quite awhile, yes, beyond the second term of the president. .....President Obama has pledged to be more transparent about the secret
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Drone strikes on trial in Pakistan
Karāchi :: Pakistan | 7 days ago
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Adding fuel to a long-simmering dispute between the US and Pakistan , a Peshawar High Court declared Central Intelligence Agency drone strikes illegal last Thursday, referring to such attacks in Pakistan's tribal belt as "war crime[s]". The court
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Pakistani authorities say CIA drone strikes have killed 896 civilians; high court accuses U.S. of war crimes
Peshawar :: Pakistan | 10 days ago
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Stating that the United States strikes must be declared war crime as these kill innocent people, it also called the government to move a UN resolution against such attacks. The high court in Pakistan's north-western city of Peshawar announced the
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The ongoing campaign to cover up Obama's indiscriminate killing program
Washington :: DC :: USA | 10 days ago
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As the former State Department legal adviser, he played an essential role in articulating and defending the international legal principles that supported U.S. targeting practices, including lethal operations conducted with the use of unmanned aerial
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PHC declares drone strikes illegal, orders govt to compensate victims
Peshawar :: Pakistan | 11 days ago
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The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Thursday declared the CIA-led drone strikes on Pakistani territory illegal and ordered the government to compensate the victims of drone attacks. The PHC chief justice Dost Mohammad said drone attacks must equal to a
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Outsourcing assassination
Karāchi :: Pakistan | 12 days ago
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But officials are strangely silent when it involves targeted killings. This column has repeatedly focused on the scope, distinction, legality, and strategic effectiveness of America's Third War of non-battlefield targeted killings in Pakistan, Yemen,
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New jihadi magazine appeals for help against drones
Karāchi :: Pakistan | 14 days ago
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A new jihadi magazine set up by militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan has appealed to Muslims around the world to come up with technology to hack into or manipulate drones, describing this as one of their most important priorities...In what appeared
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If you cannot bring them to Gitmo, drone them to death
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 15 days ago
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Gwynne Dyer Monday 6 May 2013 Last Update 6 May 2013 1:13 am John Bellinger is the last person in Washington you'd expect to criticize President Barack Obama for making too many drone strikes. It was he who drafted the (rather unconvincing) legal
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