Pak On Us Drone Strikes

President Donald Trump's administration appears ready to harden its approach toward Pakistan to crack down on Pakistan-based militants launching attacks in neighboring Afghanistan, US officials tell Reuters.

The Pakistani Taliban on Monday claimed responsibility for an attack on Karachi airport in revenge for their late leader Hakimullah Mehsud, who was killed in a US drone strike in November.

A US drone targeted a compound in the restive North Waziristan tribal region on Friday, killing 21 suspected militants in the first such attack since Pakistan reopened NATO supply routes to neighbouring Afghanistan.

Pakistan has summoned the acting US ambassador and lodged a protest over the continued CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) drone strikes in its tribal belt bordering Afghanistan, saying that the attacks were "unlawful" and a violation of the country's sovereignty. US Charge d'Affairs Richard Hoagland was called to the Foreign Ministry and "officially...

US missiles killed four militants in a Taliban stronghold of Pakistan on Wednesday, officials said, amid increasing strains with the West over a six-month blockade on NATO supplies into Afghanistan.

The White House has no intentions of ending CIA drone strikes against militant targets on Pakistani soil, U.S. officials say, possibly setting the two countries up for diplomatic tensions after Pakistan's parliament unanimously approved new guidelines for the country's troubled relationship with the United States.

The US has blamed Pakistan for not striking the iron when it's hot, just after Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud was killed in the drone attack.

Over 90 people, most of them militants, were on Tuesday killed in air strikes by Pakistani jet fighters.

President Donald Trump's administration appears ready to harden its approach toward Pakistan to crack down on Pakistan-based militants launching attacks in neighboring Afghanistan, US officials tell Reuters.

The Pakistani Taliban on Monday claimed responsibility for an attack on Karachi airport in revenge for their late leader Hakimullah Mehsud, who was killed in a US drone strike in November.

A US drone targeted a compound in the restive North Waziristan tribal region on Friday, killing 21 suspected militants in the first such attack since Pakistan reopened NATO supply routes to neighbouring Afghanistan.

Pakistan has summoned the acting US ambassador and lodged a protest over the continued CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) drone strikes in its tribal belt bordering Afghanistan, saying that the attacks were "unlawful" and a violation of the country's sovereignty. US Charge d'Affairs Richard Hoagland was called to the Foreign Ministry and "officially...

US missiles killed four militants in a Taliban stronghold of Pakistan on Wednesday, officials said, amid increasing strains with the West over a six-month blockade on NATO supplies into Afghanistan.

The White House has no intentions of ending CIA drone strikes against militant targets on Pakistani soil, U.S. officials say, possibly setting the two countries up for diplomatic tensions after Pakistan's parliament unanimously approved new guidelines for the country's troubled relationship with the United States.

The US has blamed Pakistan for not striking the iron when it's hot, just after Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud was killed in the drone attack.

Over 90 people, most of them militants, were on Tuesday killed in air strikes by Pakistani jet fighters.