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Pakistan: U.S. must halt drone attacks

Jan. 28, 2009
Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has called on the United States to halt its drone attacks against al Qaeda and Taliban fighters on Pakistani soil and warned that the missile strikes were fuelling militarism in the country's troubled tribal border region.
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