ISLAMABAD - Pakistan lodged a strong protest with the US Ambassador over the drone attack at Angoor Adda on Wednesday. Sources in the Foreign Office said that Foreign Secretary Salaman Bashir lodged the protest with Ambassador Cameron Munter, adding that Islamabad has taken up the matter with the US at all levels as drone attacks have become a core irritant in the counter-terror campaign. We have repeatedly said that such attacks are counter-productive and only contribute to strengthen the hands of the terrorists, the sources added. This was the second time that the Foreign Office has formally protested with the US against latest strikes by the drones in the Waziristan Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). The political and military leadership of the country strongly condemned the US drone hit first on March 17 when at least 39 innocent civilians attending a tribal peace congregation in Azakhel area of North Waziristan Agency. Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani himself had severely reacted to that drone strike saying it was tantamount to breaching the fundamental human rights and that such attacks were unacceptable. Prime Minister Gilani also condemned that drone hit. Consequently, the Foreign Office also summoned the US Ambassador and lodged strongest ever protest with the US. However, the latest US drone strike came after the reported meeting of the CIA Director Leon Panetta and Director General Pakistans ISI Lt. General Shuja Pasha. Staff Reporter from South Waziristan: At least eight people were killed Wednesday in two US drone strikes at Angoor Adda in South Waziristan Agency, days after the head of the countrys intelligence agency called for an end to the strikes that have caused deep anger. Two unmanned planes fired at least four missiles at a house and two vehicles. The first drone attack was on a house and in the second attack a car and a motorcycle were targeted at Baghar village in Angoor Adda, around six km from the border with Afghanistan. At least eight people have been killed in the two attacks, officials said, adding that the number of casualties is expected to rise. It was the first drone attack since March 17 in which 50 people attending a jirga meeting were killed in Datta Khel area of North Waziristan. Pakistans civilian and military leaders strongly protested over the attack. Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani issued a rare public statement in which he condemned the strike. Foreign office also summoned US Ambassador Cameron Munter in protest. Many civilians and militants have been killed in similar US drone attacks. Sources said those who killed in Wednesdays drone strikes belonged to the Haqqani group run by Sirajuddin Haqqani. However, it is yet to be confirmed. The attack came just one day after a Washington meeting between Lieutenant General Ahmad Shuja Pasha, the chief of Inter-Services Intelligence agency, and Leon Panetta, director of the CIA, which runs the drone war. Special Correspondent from Washington adds: The CIA intends to aggressively pursue its drone strikes inside Pakistans tribal areas - as it demonstrated in South Waziristan Wednesday - despite efforts by visiting ISI Chief Lt-Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha to seek a suspension of the campaign until an agreement on new rules, according to a media report. Citing US officials, The Washington Post reported that there was no plan to suspend or restrict the CIAs drone campaign, and that the spy agency has not been asked to pull any of its employees out of Pakistan. At the same time, the newspaper said that the CIA agreed to reveal more about its operatives and their activities in Pakistan, and pledged expanded cooperation on drone strikes, in an effort to repair a widening rift between two counterterrorism allies. The modest CIA concessions come at a time when the agency and its Pakistani counterpart seem increasingly at odds over the scale and direction of the covert war against al-Qaeda in Pakistans tribal belt, the Post said. The frayed relationship was the focus of a nearly four-hour meeting Monday at CIA headquarters between agency director Leon Panetta and Gen. Pasha, the head of Pakistans Inter-Services Intelligence directorate. Although both sides cited progress, the newspaper said there were also indications that major points of disagreement remain unresolved. In particular, it said officials provided conflicting accounts of whether the CIAs Predator programme would face new constraints. An unnamed senior Pakistani official was cited as saying the drone campaign is frozen for the moment until the two sides agree on new rules that would reduce the number of CIA missile strikes. Most of those killed over the past year have been just foot soldiers, the Pakistani official said. He also accused the CIA of inflating the importance of targets to justify the strikes of saying, for example, he was an expert on bomb-making, he was the IT brain. But asked whether Pasha had formally requested a halt, the official said, not in those words. The US officials said that aside from pledging to give Pakistan greater visibility into the decisions behind drone strikes, there are no new restrictions on the CIAs ability to fire. Panetta has an obligation to protect the American people, and he isnt going to call an end to any operations that support that objective, said a US official. The US official also dismissed reports that Pasha had demanded a reduction in the number of CIA officers deployed to Pakistan, saying, That did not come up. The agencys willingness to disclose the names and assignments of more of its operatives is designed to quell Pakistani anger that erupted after Raymond Davis, an agency security contractor, fatally shot two Pakistani men in Lahore, the Post said. Under the new terms, the agency is expected to provide information on contractors in the country and on some but not all of the staff officers who serve undercover as part of the CIAs clandestine service, it said.