U.S. Drone Planes Fly From Pakistan, Gilani Tells Khyber News
By Anwar Shakir and Haris Anwar - Feb 25, 2011 2:17 PM GMT+0500
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Pakistan allows the U.S. to fly drone aircraft from its soil that are used for surveillance of al-Qaeda and Taliban militants, Khyber News TV reported, citing an interview with Prime MinisterYousuf Raza Gilani.
It doesn't permit the Central Intelligence Agency to launch attacks using the unmanned planes based at Pakistan airfields, the channel reported, adding the interview took place yesterday.
Missile strikes by U.S. drones in the weakly governed northwestern tribal region borderingAfghanistan have been a source of tension between the two allies as Pakistan claims these attacks breach its sovereignty and kill civilians.
The U.S. has launched 227 missile strikes on al-Qaeda, the Taliban and allied groups in Pakistan's ethnic Pashtun and semi- autonomous tribal territories since 2004, according to adatabase maintained by the Long War Journal, a Washington-based website that monitors the conflicts in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq.
The CIA has relied on Predator and Reaper drones made by San Diego-based General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc.
The drones are mounted with laser-guided Hellfire missiles and smaller ordnance that target groups using the tribal area as a safe haven while planning attacks on Americans in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
Pakistan has asked the U.S. to transfer drone technology to the South Asian nation to enable it to better fight militants.
To contact the reporter on this story: Anwar Shakir at ashakir1@bloomberg.net Haris Anwar in Islamabad at hanwar2@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Peter Hirschberg in Hong Kong atphirschberg@bloomberg.net
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