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The Northerner

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Wed Feb 22, 2012, 05:20 PM Feb 2012

Help end drone strikes, Pakistani minister to tell Hague



Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar will make clear her opposition to pilotless drone attacks in tribal areas by the American military.

Ms Khar is also meeting US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, in London on Thursday.

Pakistan’s High Commissioner in London, Wajid Shamsul Hassan, has said drone strikes near the Afghan border, using laser-guided missiles, have damaged his country’s relations with Washington.

In an interview with the Sun on 8 February, he likened the attacks on Taliban and al-Qaeda targets to war crimes, describing them as “little more than state execution”.

Read more: http://sfluxe.com/2012/02/21/help-end-drone-strikes-pakistani-minister-to-tell-hague/
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