washington A senior defence official has told a congressional hearing on drone strikes carried out by US military that the war on terror is one without end or boundary. Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday, Assistant Defence Secretary Michael Sheehan said ...

A senior Defense Department official said Thursday that the Pentagon sees no need to change the broad congressional authorization under which the military conducts lethal drone strikes against terrorist targets and estimated that the war with al-Qaeda could continue for up to two decades, said a ...

WASHINGTONThe US Navy successfully launched an unmanned plane off the deck of an aircraft carrier for the first time Tuesday, in what officials called a breakthrough for robotic aviation.The bat-winged X-47B drone took to the air after being launched by a catapult aboard the George H.W.Bush ...

Thursday's landmark decision by the Pakistani high court in Peshawar is a remarkable document: Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan examines the US use of drones against Pakistan's tribal areas and reaches several conclusions that, while obvious to most sensible observers, seem to have eluded American ...

PESHAWAR - US drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal belt are illegal, Peshawar High Court declared on Thursday and directed the Foreign Ministry to move a resolution in the UN against such attacks.The PHC issued the verdict against the strikes by CIA-operated aircraft in response to four ...

WASHINGTON : As US drone warfare comes under increasing criticism in US, a former legal adviser to the State Department has sharply criticized the secrecy surrounding the Obama administration’s use of unmanned aerial vehicles for the targeted killing of terrorism suspects, saying it is ...

The Peshawar High Court (PHC) has declared the US drone strikes within Pakistani territory as illegal and ordered the government to contact International War Crime Tribunal (IWCT) over the issue. A two-member bench of the PHC headed by Chief Justice Dost Muhammad heard the case against the CIA-led ...

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charsadda/buner/mardan/swabi/peshawar - Chairman Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI), Imran Khan, said on Saturday that there will be no drone attacks on Pakistan if PTI voted to power on May 11.He said that tsunami of his party would sweep the political actors in the critical May 11 parliamentary ...

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan Saturday reiterated that he would order PAF to target US drones in country’s airspace if people elected him as Prime Minster.Addressing a public meeting in Swabi, division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Imran Khan said that everyone wanted to build ...

Despite the fact that Pakistan government has always condemned drone raids as unilateral attacks declaring them to be in contravention of international law as well as counter-productive to the stability of the state, the CIA-run unmanned vehicles continue their attacks unimpeded. The Foreign Office ...

LONDONAnti-war campaigners opposed to Britain’s use of armed drones in Afghanistan on Saturday marched on a military base that this week began hosting the aircraft’s human operators for the first time.Royal Air Force (RAF) pilots had been operating Reaper aircraft to support British ...

JERUSALEM  - An Israeli fighter plane shot down a drone from Lebanon over the Mediterranean Sea on Thursday as it was approaching the Israeli coast, the military claimed. “I view with great gravity this attempt to violate our border. We will continue to do what is necessary to defend the ...

  The tide of war may be receding, as President Barack Obama is fond of saying, butUSmilitary demand for unmanned drones and their remote pilots is growing. Here in theNew Mexicodesert, the US Air Force has ramped up training of drone operators - even as the nation increasingly debates their ...

SANAA : An apparent US drone strike and ensuing ground clashes in Yemen killed three suspected Al-Qaeda militants and two soldiers on Sunday, a security official and witnesses said.The strike targeted a house in Wadi Abida, in the eastern province of Marib, and killed two suspected militants, the ...

LAHORE The federal government on Thursday requested the Lahore High Court chief justice to appoint amicus curies (friends of court) to assist the court on a pending petition against drone strikes in Pakistan.When Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial resumed hearing on the petition, moved by Jamadut Dawa ...

SANAA : A suspected US drone strike in western Yemen has killed five Al-Qaeda militants, including a local chief, a security official and witnesses said on Thursday.The raid that took place late Wednesday in Dhamar province, killed Hamid Radman al-Manea, known as al-Radmi, and four of his guards, ...

PESHAWAR - Five persons were killed and seven other were injured when US predator targeted a house on border region between South Waziristan and North Waziristan on Wednesday. Local sources said that US drone fired 12 missile on a house situated in Obara village of South Waziristan Agency. The ...

At least five persons were killed and seven others injured when a US drone struck a compound in South Waziristan Agency (SWA) here in Wana on Wednesday.According to details, an unmanned US spy plane fired two missiles at a residential compound located in village Sararogha of Babar Kot in SWA.As a ...

Islamabad - Pakistan has strongly condemned the US-led drone strike in North Waziristan tribal region which killed at least four people on Sunday, reported a private TV channel. A statement issued by Foreign Office on Monday said such unilateral attacks were in contravention of international ...

Since 2004, the CIA-led drone attacks on Pakistan’s tribal areas have caused huge losses of life and property. Apparently, successive governments have strongly condemned this gross violation of the state's territorial integrity. But for the first time, it has come to light that the ...

WASHINGTON - Several former administration officials who are now out of government are criticising President Barack Obama over the secretive nature of the US drone programme that has led to the killing of hundreds of civilians in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.At the same time, 10 civil and human ...

Pakistan has strongly condemned the US drone strike in North Waziristan tribal region which killed at least four people on Sunday.According to a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday such unilateral attacks are in contravention of international law and counter-productive to ...

So it’s Musharraf who first allowed drone strikes, after all. The truth came out in his talk with the CNN at Islamabad on Friday. It has been long since, nine years, that the pilot-less planes began hitting Pakistan’s tribal areas with the ostensible purpose of taking out militants. The ...

NEW YORK - In the first public admission by a top-ranking Pakistani leader, former president Pervez Musharraf has said his government had secretly cleared US drone strikes on the country's tribal areas.At the same time, he told CNN in Islamabad that the government signed off on the strikes ...

Former President Pervez Musharraf acknowledged his government secretly signed off on U.S. drone strikes, the first time a top past or present Pakistani official has admitted publicly to such a deal.Pakistani leaders long have openly challenged the drone program and insisted they had no part in it. ...

Chief Justice Peshawar High Court (PHC) Justice Dost Muhammad Khan has remarked that if attacks on Salala can be stopped then why not drone strikes.PHC chief justice made these remarks while hearing petition against drone strikes in the tribal areas of Pakistan. He said common people are affected ...

NEW YORK - A new book claims that the CIA made a deal with Pakistan that allowed the United States to begin its drone assassination programme in exchange for the murder of an enemy of Pakistan.In an excerpt in Sunday’s New York Times, journalist Mark Mazzetti outlined how Pakistan, which was ...

ISLAMABAD - The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has strongly condemned drone attacks in Pakistan.The annual report of the Commission for 2012 issued in Islamabad said that 48 drone attacks took place in FATA as compared to 74 strikes in 2011.Explaining the salient features of the ...

WASHINGTON - A former US State Department official has warned that the next Pakistan government emerging from May elections will demand an end to American drone strikes on their territory.“Whatever civilian leadership is installed will demand greater respect for Pakistani sovereignty by the ...