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Pak Taliban not to allow polio vaccination in tribal area
Fp Archives • 13 years agoThe group led by commander Hafiz Gul Bahadur distributed a pamphlet yesterday that announced the ban on the government's polio vaccination campaign.
Drone attacks 'inhumane', says slain al-Qaeda leader's brother
Fp Archives • 13 years agoThe brother of al-Qaeda's second-in-command, who was killed in a US drone strike, said Washington's use of the remote-controlled weapons is inhumane and makes a nonsense of its claims to champion human rights.
Top al-Qaeda strategist, Abu Yahya killed in Pak drone strike
Fp Archives • 13 years agoAbu Yahya al-Libi, one of al Qaeda's top strategists and seen as the most prominent figure in the network after leader Ayman al Zawahri, may have been killed in a drone strike in northwest Pakistan
US drone strike kills 10 in North-West Pakistan
Fp Archives • 13 years agoThe second US drone attack in as many days killed 10 people in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, intelligence officials said, an incident likely to raise tensions in the standoff between Washington and Islamabad over NATO supply routes to Afghanistan.
US missiles kill 5 militants in Pakistan
Fp Archives • 13 years agoAmerican missiles killed five suspected Islamist militants close to the Afghan border, the latest in a barrage of attacks that show Washington is ignoring Islamabad's demands it halt the strikes, Pakistani officials said.
US drone strikes kill four in Pak again
Fp Archives • 13 years agoAn American drone fired two missiles at a bakery in northwest Pakistan Saturday and killed four suspected militants, officials said, as the U.S. pushed on with its drone campaign despite Pakistani demands to stop.
US-Pak talks fails as Washington angry over Kabul attacks
Fp Archives • 13 years agoPakistan had demanded an unconditional apology from the US over the NATO strikes, but the talks ended in failure, as the White House, "angered by the recent spectacular Taliban attacks in Afghanistan, refuses to apologise.
Another drone strike in Pakistan kills three
Fp Archives • 13 years agoA suspected US drone fired two missiles at a house in northwest Pakistan early Friday morning, killing three alleged militants in an attack that comes as Pakistani officials have stepped up their calls for the strikes to end.
Officials: White House offers to curtail drones
Fp Archives • 13 years agoIn a bid to save the CIA's drone campaign against Al-Qaeda in Pakistan, US officials offered key concessions to Pakistan's spy chief that included advance notice and limits on the types of targets.
US pushed with drone strikes despite Pakistani resistance
Fp Archives • 13 years agoVice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were among those who spoke with Pakistani officials shortly before the eight-week pause in the drone program ended, sources familiar with the issue said.