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Pakistan protests over U.S. missile strikes

ISLAMABAD, Nov. 20, 2008 (Reuters) — Pakistan summoned U.S. ambassador Anne Patterson on Thursday to protest over missile strikes launched by pilotless drone aircraft against militant targets in Pakistan. ...  > full story

Pakistan summons U.S. envoy to protest missiles

ISLAMABAD, Nov. 20, 2008 (Reuters) — Pakistan summoned U.S. ambassador Anne Patterson on Thursday to receive a formal protest over missile strikes launched by pilotless drone aircraft against militant targets on Pakistani soil, a Pakistani foreign ministry official said. ...  > full story

Pakistan denies accord with U.S. on drone attacks

ISLAMABAD, Nov. 17, 2008 (Reuters) — Pakistan denied on Monday a U.S. media report that it had given tacit approval to the United States to carry out missile strikes by pilotless drones against al Qaeda and Taliban targets on its soil. ...  > full story

Canada seeks release of kidnap victim in Pakistan

OTTAWA, Nov. 14, 2008 (Reuters) — Canada and Pakistan are working together to seek the release of a Canadian citizen who was kidnapped in Pakistan this week while working on a documentary, the Canadian government and a friend of the victim said on Friday. ...  > full story

U.S. missiles hit Pakistani Taliban, 12 dead

MIRANSHAH, Pakistan, Nov. 14, 2008 (Reuters) — Suspected U.S. drones fired missiles into a Pakistani tribal region on Friday, killing 12 people, including five foreigners, in an area known as a stronghold of Pakistani Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud. ...  > full story

Iran diplomat kidnapped, insecurity mounts in Pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov. 13, 2008 (Reuters) — Gunmen abducted an Iranian diplomat in Peshawar on Thursday, a day after a U.S. aid worker was shot dead in the city on the front line of an Islamist insurgency sweeping northwest Pakistan and parts of Afghanistan. ...  > full story

American shot dead in Pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov. 12, 2008 (Reuters) — Gunmen killed a U.S. aid official Wednesday outside his home in Peshawar, police said, the Pakistani city that has borne the brunt of an Islamist insurgency spreading from tribal lands bordering Afghanistan. ...  > full story

Pakistan tells Petraeus to stop missile strikes

ISLAMABAD, Nov. 3, 2008 (Reuters) — The U.S. commander running the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, General David Petraeus, held talks on Monday with Pakistani leaders who told him to stop U.S. strikes on militants in Pakistani territory. ...  > full story

U.S. commander Petraeus arrives in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Nov. 2, 2008 (Reuters) — The U.S. commander running the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, General David Petraeus, arrived in Pakistan on Sunday for talks with government and military officials, a U.S. embassy spokesman said. ...  > full story

Suicide bomber kills nine in NW Pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Oct. 31, 2008 (Reuters) — A suicide bomber killed nine people on Friday in an attack on police in the northwestern Pakistani town of Mardan. ...  > full story
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