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NATO continues to violate Pakistani airspace as two helicopters again intruded into the Pakistani territory on Monday.

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BBC News [UK]

05/25/11

The US military has announced the withdrawal of a number of its troops from Pakistan. The Pentagon said it had received a request from the Pakistani government to reduce its presence in the country. The request came after a raid by US special forces killed al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in early May. The US has more than 200 troops in Pakistan helping to train the army. But there are said to be intelligence and special forces operating there...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13555557


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Washington often acts as if Pakistan were its client state, with no other possible patron but the United States.

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/05/24/pakistan_china_miscalculation


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'We will be forced to respond if you do not come up with a strategy that stops the drone strikes,' Pasha is reported to have told Morell, the newspaper said on its website.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110522/wl_nm/us_pakistan_usa_drones



Thousands protest against US drone attacks in Pakistan

Thousands demonstrated in Karachi on Sunday to demand an immediate end to US missile strikes in Pakistan s tribal areas and urge the blocking of NATO supplies passing through the country.

http://bit.ly/mDWYkt



US Attack Kills 7 People In Pakistan

The attack took place on the outskirts of Mir Ali, some 30 kilometres (20 miles) east of Miranshah, the main town of the district where US officials want Pakistan to launch an offensive against networks fighting in Afghanistan.

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Pakistan sit-in protests drone strikes

The Daily Times reported thousands of people from various political and religious groups took part in the Sunday protest called by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (Movement for Justice) party.

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Drone strikes 'suicide bombing factories': Imran

'It is not Pakistan s war, this is America s war. This war has killed thousands of innocent Pakistanis, women and children,' TI Chief Imran Khan told the gathering of around 7,000 supporters.

http://thenews.com.pk/NewsDetail.aspx?ID=15932


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Obama Troop Surge Decision Ignored Pak-Taliban Ties

Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service: 'The unilateral U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden created a spike in mutual recriminations between U.S. and Pakistani politicians, but their fundamental conflict of interest over Afghanistan was already driving the two countries toward serious confrontation. The pivotal event in relations between the Barack Obama administration and Pakistan was the decision by Obama to escalate the war in Afghanistan in 2009, despite the knowledge that Pakistan was committed to supporting the Taliban insurgents as a strategic policy in its conflict with India.'

http://www.truthout.org/obama-troop-surge-decision-ignored-pak-taliban-ties/1306083744



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By Sibel Edmonds

I decided to go ahead and write a fairly quick commentary on why the question of 'why and why now' keeps pointing to Pakistan as the next probable occupation target for our never-dying neocon objective-makers.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28146.htm



WikiLeaks Pakistan Papers

Today Dawn is carrying the first set from a huge cache of cables, and will continue to publish them in the following days. Dawn s extensive coverage will include publication of the actual cables as well as specially commissioned stories around them. All cables referenced are available for viewing in their original form on Dawn.com.

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'If I were in Pakistani shoes, I would say I have already paid a price. I have been humiliated. I have been shown that the Americans can come in here and do this with impunity,' Gates told reporters.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/US/05/18/pakistan.bin.laden/index.html



US will not repeat Abbottabad-like act, says Gilani

The prime minister, was quick to state that Pakistan will not accept any dictates from the US and take all decisions in accordance with the national interest.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2011\05\19\story_19-5-2011_pg7_27


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By JUANA SUMMERS

The helicopters that landed in Abbottabad won t be the last to put American troops on the ground in Pakistan, says Rep. Ron Paul.

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China 'Asks USA To Respect Pak Sovereignty'

By Press Trust of India

China has 'warned in unequivocal terms that any attack on Pakistan would be construed as an attack on China', a media report claimed today.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28132.htm



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Pakistani ground troops opened fire on two NATO helicopters that invaded Pakistan s airspace from Afghanistan early Tuesday morning, the Pakistani Army said in a statement. A firefight then briefly erupted between NATO forces and the troops, the statement said, and two Pakistani soldiers were wounded.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/18/world/asia/18pakistan.html



Pakistan military protests after NATO incursion wounds soldiers

NATO helicopters from Afghanistan intruded into northwest Pakistan Tuesday, wounding two soldiers, officials said, prompting a protest from the military.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110517/wl_nm/us_pakistan_nato


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Express Tribune [Pakistan]

05/17/11

Two US drone strikes targeting a militant compound and a vehicle in the North Waziristan tribal agency killed at least a dozen militants on Monday, officials said. The attacks came days after a warning from Parliament that Islamabad would withdraw transit facility for Nato supplies if the US did not stop missile strike in its tribal regions...

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US kills 15 people in Pakistan

At least 15 people were killed in two separate United States-led drone attacks in Pakistan s North Wazirstan Agency on Monday.

http://www.newkerala.com/news/world/fullnews-210942.html



US Kills 6 People In Pakistan

An unmanned U.S. drone missile strike in the Taliban-controlled North Waziristan province of Pakistan has killed at least six 'suspected' militants on Friday, according to local officials.

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