[caption id="attachment_110355" align="alignright" width="154"] A US drone firing a missile (file Photo)[/caption] TEHRAN (Tasnim) At least seven people have been killed and three others injured in a US drone attack in Pakistans mountainous tribal region of North Waziristan. Pakistani intelligence sources confirmed on Wednesday that a US drone ...

[caption id="attachment_105969" align="alignright" width="209"] A US assassination drone (file photo)[/caption] New US assassination drone strikes have claimed the lives of at least six people in Pakistans tribal regions. According to local security officials, two US drones fired four missiles into a compound in the village of Doga Macha Khel, located ...

Islamabad, Nov 21, IRNA An American spy aircraft Thursday fired missiles on a religious school in northwest Pakistan and killed at least eight people, state media reported. The US unmanned drone fired three missiles on the school killing students and teachers, local security sources said. They said eight people were killed in the early morning ...

Islamabad, Nov 9, IRNA Hundreds of protesters against the US drone attacks in northwest Pakistan have briefly stopped supplies to NATO forces in neighbouring Afghanistan. Supporters of Jamaat-e-Islami party staged a sit-in on the main NATO supply route in Peshawar for two hours, forcing the authorities to stop NATO containers from entering Afghanistan....

Islamabad, Nov 7, IRNA - Opposition lawmakers have said that the government should shoot down remotely piloted aircraft if the United States continues to violate Pakistans sovereignty, local media reported on Thursday. Speaking on the floor of the National Assembly, Dr Shireen Mazari of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) said that the government, ...

Islamabad, Nov 4, IRNA Pakistan Taliban have appointed an interim leader while the new leader will be appointed in the coming days, the groups spokesman said. Asmatullah Shaheen Bitani was appointed after the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Chief Hakimullah Mehsud was killed in a US drone strike on Friday. Bitani will run affairs of the TTP unless ...

Islamabad, Oct 31, IRNA - A US spy aircraft early Thursday fired missiles on a house in Pakistans North Waziristan and killed at least three people, security officials said. The drone fired missiles in the Miranshah Bazaar that caused two large explosions and resulted in the deaths of three people, residents said. Some reports said five people ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Two major human right groups blasted the US for killing large groups of civilians in its so-called drone campaign against the Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Dave Lindorff in an article said that two respected human rights organizations (Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International) blasted the US for its use of missile-firing drone aircraft ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday urged US President Barack Obama to end drone strikes in Pakistan which have killed hundreds of people, most of them civilians, in recent years. "I ... brought up the issue of drones in our meeting, emphasizing the need for an end to such strikes," Sharif told reporters after ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan's prime minister, is due to meet the US president a day after calling for an end to drone strikes in his country and the release of an independent report stating such attacks could constitute war crimes. The White House meeting on Wednesday, Sharif's first since he was elected in May elections, is expected ...

TEHRAN, Oct. 23 (MNA) Human rights groups on Tuesday accused the United States of breaking international law and perhaps committing war crimes by killing civilians in missile and drone strikes that were intended to hit militants in Pakistan and Yemen. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch released separate reports detailing the deaths of dozens ...

TEHRAN, Oct. 22 (MNA) The United States should end the secrecy surrounding its drone campaign in Pakistan and bring those responsible for illegal strikes to justice, Amnesty International said Tuesday. The rights group said there appeared to be no justification for two drone attacks in northwest Pakistan last year, one of which killed a 68-year-old ...

TEHRAN, Aug.20 (MNA) The United Nations human rights chief has criticized the United States and Israels practice of carrying out drone attacks in different countries. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay censured the deadly drone raids at a UN Security Council meeting on the protection of civilians on Monday. The current lack of transparency ...

In addition to conflicting reports about the death toll in US drone strikes in Pakistan, those injured and affected by the attacks are totally ignored, says an analyst. Another aspect to it and thats those who are injured. In Peshawar,.there arescores of people who are drone strike victims, who are survivors who are not being counted at all. While ...