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U.S drone attacks in Pakistan killed 27 in Total
U.S drone attacks in Pakistan killed 27 in Total
REUTERS reported U.S drone attacks in northwest Pakistan on Monday resulting to 15 casualties. According to the news, this attack would likely add tensions between Washington and Islamabad amid a standoff over NATO supply routes to Afghanistan.
Officials said that this 3rd attack in three days targeted a militant hideout located in the Hesokhel Village of the North Waziristan
tribal region.
Death toll in the past three days now increased to 27. Unmanned planes-U.S. drones hit targets in the South Waziristan tribal region on
Saturday and Sunday.
United States and Pakistan are having difficult negotiations for the re-opening of the overland supply routes to NATO fources in Afghanistan. Islamabad blocked the routes in November 2011 after 24 Pakistani soldiers were killed by cross-border "friendly fire" from NATO aircraft.