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Pakistan rejects US offer on drones
Islamabad has rejected a U.S. offer that aimed to save the CIA’s deadly drone campaign against Pakistani tribal areas, which Pakistani authorities say mostly kills innocent civilians.
U.S. officials offered concessions to Pakistan's spy chief Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha that included advance notice and limits on the types of targets. The offers however, were flatly rejected, leaving U.S.-Pakistani relations strained as President Obama prepares to meet on Tuesday with the Pakistani prime minister, CBS reported.
CIA Director David Petraeus, who met with Pasha in London in January, offered to give Pakistan advance notice of future CIA drone strikes against targets on its territory in a bid to keep Pakistan from blocking the strikes.
The CIA chief also offered to apply new limits on the types of targets hit, said a senior U.S. intelligence official briefed on the meetings, according to the CBS report.
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