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Sunday, August 14, 2011
US officials slam report on Pak drone war dead
WASHINGTON: US officials on Friday strongly rejected allegations in an independent study that a covert drone war in Pakistan has killed a large number of civilians, saying the numbers are “way off the mark.”
US officials slammed the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism’s report that there had been many more CIA attacks on alleged militant targets and far more civilian deaths than previously reported.
The report said that bombing raids by unmanned aircraft, designed to target al Qaeda and Taliban, had killed up to 168 children in Pakistan over the last seven years. “The numbers cited by this organisation are way off the mark,” said a senior US official, afpCourtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk