Pakistan makes UN call for end to US drone strikes

Last Updated: Saturday, October 26, 2013, 09:41

Pakistan has renewed demands for an end to US drone strikes on its territory as two UN experts called for greater transparency in the use of the weapons.

UN experts call for more US transparency on drones

Last Updated: Saturday, October 26, 2013, 09:40

Two UN human rights investigators called for more transparency from the United States and other countries about their drone strikes programme, saying their secrecy is the biggest obstacle to determining the impact pact on civilian casualties.

Ex-PM Gilani denies his government approved US drone strikes

Last Updated: Thursday, October 24, 2013, 22:49

Former premier Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday denied a report that his government had approved US drone strikes in Pakistan`s tribal areas.

Pakistan secretly in cahoots with US on drone strikes: CIA docs

Last Updated: Thursday, October 24, 2013, 09:28

Just hours after Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was said to have registered his dissent against the drone strikes, a report suggested that the government officials in Islamabad were in cahoots with the CIA.

US insists drone strikes comply with international law

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 23, 2013, 10:19

The US on Tuesday denied its drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan and elsewhere infringed international law and said it did all it could to avoid civilian casualities.

Amnesty International questions US secrecy over drone strikes in Pakistan

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 22, 2013, 13:45

The London-based Amnesty International has said that America must be held accountable for the unlawful killings, some of which also amount to `war crimes`.

US drone operators face criminal fraud charges

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 22, 2013, 11:59

Nearly two dozen current and former members of the Arizona Air National Guard responsible for remotely operating drones to support troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have been indicted on charges including theft and money laundering.

Pakistan tells UN at least 400 civilians killed by drone strikes

Last Updated: Saturday, October 19, 2013, 08:59

Pakistan has confirmed that of some 2,200 people killed by drone strikes in the past decade, at least 400 were civilians and an additional 200 victims were deemed "probable non-combatants," a U.N. human rights investigator said.

Pakistan calls for end to US drone strikes

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 8, 2013, 15:55

Pakistan`s envoy to UN Masood Khan said the war against terrorism must be waged within the framework of international law and called for an end to US drone strikes in Pakistan.

Four killed in US drone strike in Pakistan

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 1, 2013, 00:57

Days after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif spoke against the use of US drones in Pakistan at the UN General Assembly, a CIA-operated spy plane targeted a house in the lawless North Waziristan region and killed four suspected militants.

US drone kills three more in Pakistan

Last Updated: Monday, September 30, 2013, 16:42

At least three people were killed and four injured in a US drone strike launched early Monday in Pakistan`s northwest tribal area of North Waziristan, Xinhua reported.