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November 1st, 2013 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Imran Khan, the leader of Movement for Justice party that controls Pakistan’s northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, said on Thursday that continued drone strikes would damage peace talks with the Pakistani Taliban, the Washington Post reported.
“If drone attacks are carried out during peace talks with Taliban, NATO supplies will be stopped,” Khan stated at a news conference in the eastern city of Lahore.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Thursday that Islamabad has started dialogue with the Taliban in the hope of stopping fatal attacks against people and police forces. The Taliban says the process will quickly collapse if the US airstrikes are not stopped.
UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counterterrorism Ben Emmerson recently said that the Pakistani government had reported at least 400 civilian fatalities as a result of the US drone strikes since 2004.
In addition, according to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, between 308 and 789 civilians have died in US killer drone attacks in Pakistan since 2008.
The Pakistani government closed the border crossings used to transfer supplies to the US-led foreign forces in neighboring Afghanistan in late 2011, after 24 Pakistani soldiers were killed in a US airstrike in the border region.
The deadly incident heightened tensions between Islamabad and Washington. Pakistan called for a US apology, which was snubbed by Washington.
Islamabad, however, agreed to reopen the NATO supply routes to Afghanistan on July 3 after the then US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton apologized to Islamabad in a statement over the killing of the soldiers.
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Source Article from http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/11/01/332392/pakistans-khan-urges-end-to-drone-raids/
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