"There is an across-the-board consensus in Pakistan that these drone strikes must end," it said.Ange...

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"There is an across-the-board consensus in Pakistan that these drone strikes must end," it said.
Angered over the strikes, supporters from cricket star-turned politician Imran Khan's Tehreek--Insaf party in the northwest have been protesting along a main road used to truck NATO troop
supplies in and out of Afghanistan for the past month, forcing the U.S. Many in Pakistan also
consider it an affront to their sovereignty but the U.S. The other route is further north.
. to end drone attacks and block NATO supplies across the country.
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Islamabad and the country's political parties regularly denounce the attacks as a violation of
Pakistan's sovereignty, although the country's government is known to have supported some of the
strikes in the past. The tension has further complicated a relationship that Washington views as vital
to fight al-Qaida and the Taliban, as well as negotiate peace in Afghanistan.
Drone strikes have been a source of tension between Islamabad and Washington.
"We briefly stopped some of the NATO trucks this morning, but now we are just holding a peaceful
rally against the drone attacks," said Abdul Wali Shakir, a spokesman for the Jamaat-e-Islami party,
which also attended the rally, demanding an end to the drone strikes.
On Thursday, about 150 supporters from Khan's party on the outskirts of the southwestern city of
Quetta briefly blocked trucks carrying supplies for NATO forces heading toward Afghanistan, said a
senior police official Abdul Rauf. has shown no indication it is willing to halt the program.
Trucks carrying NATO supplies pass through Quetta, the capital of southwestern Baluchistan
province, before going through the Chaman border crossing -- one of two routes used for supplies.
denies. But he said police ordered them to allow the trucks to proceed.
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The land routes through Pakistan from the southern port city of Karachi have been key to getting
supplies to NATO troops in Afghanistan. They now increasingly are being used to ship equipment out
of Afghanistan as the U.S. authorities often target Taliban, al-Qaida and their Pakistani supporters in
the country's tribal regions.

2. "Such strikes also set dangerous precedents in the inter-state relations," it said, adding the strikes
had a negative impact on the government's efforts to bring peace and stability in Pakistan and the
region.
The latest strike took place just before midnight Wednesday in the village of Qutab Khel in North
Waziristan and initial reports gathered from their agents in the field suggested the slain men were
Arabs, the two intelligence officials said. Unrest, Conflicts & WarPolitics &
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ISLAMABAD (AP) -- A suspected American drone fired two missiles at a home in a northwestern
tribal region of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan, killing at least three foreign militants, Pakistani
intelligence officials said Thursday.
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Pakistan's Foreign Ministry condemned the latest strike in a statement Thursday, saying such
attacks were a violation of Pakistan's sovereignty and territorial integrity. They spoke on condition of
anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
The American drone program is extremely unpopular in Pakistan because it is perceived as killing
innocent civilians, which the U.S. to stop shipments out of Afghanistan.

3. Khan has urged the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to force the U.S. seeks to withdraw
most of its troops from the country by the end of 2014.
Associated Press Writer Abdul Sattar in Quetta contributed to this report.
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