ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- Pakistan's interior minister denied Monday Taliban leaders are in an area the U.S. wants to target with drones.
"Nothing exists with the name of Quetta Shura in Pakistan," Interior Minister Rehman Malik told reporters in Karachi Monday, referring to a circle of Afghan Taliban leaders believed to be based in the southwestern city.
Quetta is one of the areas where the Americans want to start drone attacks, a senior NATO official told CNN.
"Neither the government nor the military is in a position to face possible domestic pressure on the expansion of drones," a Pakistani military official told CNN.
But Pakistan has agreed to more intelligence-sharing with the United States, including allowing more CIA spies in the country, another senior official said.
The officials spoke on the sensitive issue on condition of anonymity.
Five suspected militants were killed Sunday and four Monday in suspected drone strikes in the border zone, intelligence officials told CNN.
Monday's strike was the 95th this year, compared with 52 strikes in all of 2009, CNN's Islamabad bureau said.
