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April 13th, 2013 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda In an interview with CNN broadcast on Thursday night, Musharraf said his government gave permission “only on a few occasions, when a target was absolutely isolated and [there was] no chance of collateral damage”.
He stated that Islamabad and Washington discussed the drone operations at the military and intelligence level, and cleared only if “there was no time for our own [special operations task force] and military to act. That was… maybe two or three times only”.
Musharraf added, “You couldn’t delay action. These ups and downs kept going… it was a very fluid situation, a vicious enemy… mountains, inaccessible areas.”
The former army general, who grabbed power in an October 1999 bloodless coup, stepped down in August 2008 as president of the country when his allies lost parliamentary elections in February 2008 and a new government threatened him with impeachment. A year later, he left the country.
Last month, the 69-year-old returned home after nearly four years of self-imposed exile in London and Dubai to run for the parliamentary elections, which are scheduled to be held on May 11.
On April 7, The New York Times also reported that Pakistan allowed the US to carry out assassination drone strikes on its soil following a secret deal between the two countries in 2004.
Islamabad has denied the report, calling it “baseless and a part of the propaganda to create confusion about the clear position of Pakistan on the matter.”
The Pakistani government has frequently voiced its opposition to US drone strikes, saying they violate the country’s sovereignty.
US officials refuse to publicly discuss any details of the covert program and the death toll from drone strikes remains a mystery.
According to the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism, in Pakistan alone 366 strikes have killed up to 3,581 people, with 884 being innocent civilians.
Washington uses assassination drones in several countries, claiming that they target “terrorists”. According to witnesses, however, the attacks have mostly led to massive civilian casualties.
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