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India-Pakistan
Punjabi Taliban, foreign militants among 16 victims of drone attacks
2014-06-13
[DAWN] US drone attacks in tribal areas, which resumed on Wednesday after a gap of more than five months, continued on Thursday, leaving another 10 suspected faceless myrmidons dead in two pre-dawn strikes and taking the corpse count since Wednesday evening to 16.

According to sources, foreign faceless myrmidons and Punjabi Taliban were among the dead. The sources said the drones targeted two bully boy hideouts, in Tabbi Toolkhel and Darga Mandi areas of North Wazoo.

In the Tabbi Toolkhel attack, drones fired four missiles at a house and a vehicle, killing six people. In Darga Mandi, two missiles hit a compound, leaving four people dead.

Drones continued to hover over the region throughout the day, the sources added.

Rooters news agency quoted two government officials as saying that Pakistain had given the Americans "express approval" for the latest strikes.

But in Islamabad, says our staff news hound, the Foreign Office condemned the attacks and in a brief statement reiterated the official stance that the strikes were "a violation of Pakistain's illusory sovereignty and territorial integrity".
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