Lethal drone strike we can anger in Pakistan - New York Times fuel pump

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - American drone attack killed 23 people in the North Waziristan on Friday, Pakistani military said in a strike against militant, relentless pressure from the United States about to mean that Pakistan's military in the midst of increasing resistance to such strikes.

Strikes came a day after the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, met with the Pakistani military, General Ashfaq Kayani Parvez, and asked that more fighters fight Pakistan to the North Waziristan as a starting point, to United States and NATO troops in Afghanistan.

The attack was the second of the United States determination continues to drone attacks since the head of Pakistan's spy Pasha, met Agency, Lieutenant General Ahmed Shuja this month in Washington with Director Leon E. Panetta by the Central Intelligence Agency to halt the strike order.

Friday's attack could further anti-drone mood the Pakistani public fuel. An official in the North Waziristan reporters Pakistani that were five children and four women among the 23 who were killed.

The attack from forces militant commander, Hafiz Gul Bahadur, highlighted cross its loyalists in Afghanistan American and NATO troops to the border, the official said Government.

Mr Bahadur works under a peace agreement with the Pakistani army, which ensures that militant under his control focus not Pakistani soldiers but is only on the Allied soldiers attack to do.

The victims Friday in Spinwam, an area near Mir Ali in North Waziristan collected were the hub of a fighter in the past few months, had become, said the official.

In the growing public nerves between the US and the Pakistani army is Pakistan's Government a planned NATO protest this weekend in Peshawar set allows. A political leader, Imran Khan, has demonstrators to stage a sit-in Saturday to the block truck with NATO supplies called for the war in Afghanistan. The truck travels through Peshawar from the port of Karachi to Torkham, the gateway to Afghanistan.

Strike the drone came on Friday after Mullen an unusually tough message during his transmitted visit Admiral here, to say that Pakistan's spy directly support agency, inter-services intelligence, and the Haqqani favours network of militants in North Waziristan. The network are responsible for many of the American victims in Afghanistan fighters, American commanders say.

The United States has long held that the network was Haqqani of the Pakistani Spy supports Agency, but it is so rarely publicly says.

In a separate episode, between the Pakistani armed forces and the Taliban, 16 soldiers of Pakistan border Corps were killed Thursday when their checkpoint was overrun by 150 militants near the border with Afghanistan, a Pakistani security official said.

The battle still close to 12 hours at Kharkai in the Northern District of province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, formerly North-West Frontier Province. Sent out to the troops to reinforce two officers, were killed in an ambush, said the officials.

The attack which came as the Army went militants on Pakistani soldiers have proved difficult on a new attack in Mohmand, part of the tribal areas that hold for the Pakistani army.

In a report to the Congress this month, the Obama complained administration that the Pakistani army had to defeat the revolt in Pakistan "no clear path" towards, and cited the failed efforts to eradicate the militants of Abdul Ahad Mohmand as an illustration. The army "was otherwise for the third time in two years" of Mohmand, militant delete according to the report.

The 150 terrorists, which was carried out the attack on Thursday the Army attack on Afghanistan fled and then again in Pakistan the soldiers blow to enable.

General Kayani, the head of the Pakistani military, Abdul Ahad Mohmand visited on Thursday for the second stage of a new attack a narrow valley on the border with Afghanistan on the SURAN, focused.

In the last few months American and NATO have to troops on the other side of the border of Abdul Ahad Mohmand Pakistan militant attack, as she escaped in Afghanistan, Pakistani security officials said helped. But the official said the Pakistani fighters who to escape you prior to the attack on the Suran began and were attacked on Thursday again seemed in Pakistan by elements in the Afghan army, which support them.

Jane Perlez reported from Islamabad and Ismail Khan from Peshawar, Pakistan.

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Pakistan drone strikes kill 25

U.S. drones fired 10 missiles at a house in a Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border, killing at least 25 people Friday, said Pakistani intelligence officials.

The strike came a day after the head of the Pakistani army has denounced these attacks and could also sour already deteriorating relations between Washington and Islamabad.

Also Friday, hundreds of activists attacked a control point, in a Northwestern Pakistani District along the border during the night and in the morning, killing 14 security troops, officials said — a show of insurgents continued strength despite the offensives of the army against them.

U.S. missiles more recent success Spinwam village in Waziristan in the North, a tribal region home to Islamic militants targeting American troops and NATO in Afghanistan. The three said civilian intelligence officials were suspected of being among the dead, and also several people were injured. The number of reported deaths was relatively high for a US missile strike.

The United States rarely acknowledges missiles CIA - run program, which means that the usual sources of confirmation of the strikes are responsible for Pakistani intelligence, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they do not have permission to speak to the media. This information of the region is virtually impossible to verify independently. The region is remote, rugged and dangerous, and access is restricted by law.

Although Pakistan has long denounced the missile attack fired the drone as a violation of its sovereignty, it is widely accepted to cooperate secretly with at least some of the attacks.

But relations between Pakistan and the United States were sunk to new lows this year after that a contractor of the US CIA in January shot and killed two Pakistani, he said, were trying to steal. A March missile that reportedly killed dozens of innocent tribes developed Pakistani leaders angry.

During a visit here Wednesday, Admiral Mike Mullen, the Chairman of the U.S. joint chiefs of staff, accused spy service military-run of Pakistan to maintain links with the network Haqqani, a major Afghan Taliban faction.

Pakistan's military-run Inter-Services Intelligence spy has agency links to the leaders of the network dating back to the Soviet occupation of the 1980s of the Afghanistan, when the Group has also been supported by Washington. But after the attacks of September 11, 2001, Pakistan has insisted he cut these links.

However, many analysts and US officials suspect Islamabad may be trying to maintain its links with the Haqqanis so that it can be used as a means to retain influence in Afghanistan - and keep a rampart against archrival India - after the American leave.

A Pakistani army statement later dismissed what he called "negative propaganda" by the United States, while the Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani said offensive multiple of its troops against insurgents in northwestern groups are evidence of Pakistan's "national resolve to defeat terrorism."

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: Debate double room to the debate: If Pakistan says no to c.i.a.

Arif Ali / Agence France-Presse - Getty Images members of the Islamic Party of Jamaat-e-Islami protest the release of Raymond Davis, employee c.i.a. and U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan in March.

With tensions between the Central Intelligence Agency, Pakistan and the Pakistani Spy Agency high has asked that 335 of American intelligence agents, contractors, and special forces leave the country, and that the U.S. scale are drone on tribal areas back attacks.

The demand, said officials of the two countries is a response to the arrest of Raymond A. Davis, a c.i.a. Security Officer in January during which he said killed two men in Lahore, was a robbery. Mr.. Davis has been released since then, after the Government agreed to pay $2.3 million to the Pakistani Government, it paid the men's families as compensation.

K?nnen-- or -- to comply with the United States Pakistan's demand that the c.i.a. curtail its activities? A serious blow to us efforts this could be, to his enemies in the region?

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Shuja Nawaz, NATO Council

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Pakistan tells US it must sharply cut activities c.i.a.

Pakistani and American officials said in interviews that the demand that the United States scale back was his presence the direct consequences of the arrest in Pakistan of Raymond A. Davis, a c.i.a. Security Officer two men in January killed while what he said, was an attempt to rob him.

All in all about 335 American personal - c.i.a. were prompted officers and contractors, and special forces - to leave the country, a Pakistani official said closely in the decision.

It was not clear how many c.i.a.-personnel, which would leave the total number in Pakistan has not known have been given. But nachgefragte the cuts the Pakistanis amounted to 25 to 40 percent of the United States special forces of the country, the official said. Which contain also the abolition of all American contractors from the c.i.a. in Pakistan used.

The requests appeared to impede enough bad American efforts--either by drone strikes or Pakistani military training - to combat fighters who use Pakistan as a base to fight American troops in Afghanistan and plot terrorist attacks abroad.

The reduction of which have been personally requested by the head of the Pakistan army, General Ashfaq Kayani Parvez, said Pakistani and American officials, anonymity requested and deal with the sensitive issue.

The scale of the Pakistani claims emerged as Lieutenant-General Ahmed Shuja Pasha, the head of who Agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate or the ISI, Pakistan's chief spy in Washington on Monday for almost four hours of meetings with the Director c.i.a.E. Leon Panetta and Admiral Mike Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff.

Two American officials said later, that General Pasha not specific requests for the reduction of the c.i.a. officers, contractors or American military in Pakistan in the meetings.

"There were no ultimatums, no requirements to withdraw dozens or hundreds of Americans from Pakistan," said one of the officials, who spoke on the basis of the tensions between the two spy services under the condition of anonymity.

A c.i.a. spokesman, George little, called the meeting "productive" and said "to make the relationship between the two services remains on solid basis."

The meetings were part of efforts to repair relations the spy agencies already provisional and suspicious. These bindings crashed to a new low as one of the Davis episode that further, the divergence in the Pakistani and American interests has made available, such as the final in Afghanistan closer.

The Pakistani army firmly believes that Washington's real in Pakistan aims, the nation of its valuable nuclear arsenal, stripes, which now on a path to the world's fifth largest, the Pakistani official said closely in the decision on the reduction of the US presence.

On the American side, frustration with the Pakistani army has apparent inability, a large number of militant groups, including the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, which flourished in Pakistan's tribal areas, despite more than $1 billion in American support per year to the Pakistani armed forces have to defeat built.

In a rare public rebuke, a White House report to Congress last week described the Pakistani efforts against the militant as disappointing.

At the time of his arrest Mr.. Davis a covert c.i.a. was effort, to penetrate a militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, which has relations with Pakistan in the military and intelligence has a setting, deepening progress in Afghanistan, and as a global threat is perceived.

The c.i.a. asked, Mr Davis be released immediately on the grounds he had diplomatic immunity. Instead, he found for 47 days in prison and the officials said, for 14 days in question provided by ISI agents during his arrest in Lahore, infuriating American officials. He was finally released to the families of his victims to the approximately $2.3 million in damages agreed.

The list of the reduction of the American personnel from General Kayani is another price, required but apparently according to the Pakistani and American officials. American officials said last year that the Pakistanis had allowed that up to 120 special operations in the country, which involved training of the paramilitary Frontier most of them troops Corps in the north-western Pakistan. The Americans had reached the quota, the Pakistani official said.

In addition to the withdrawal of all c.i.a said contractors, the removal of the c.i.a. Pakistan-activists "unilateral" assignments such as Mr. Davis involved in demand is not, the Pakistani secret service of the Pakistani officials know.

American official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said without elaboration that it had asked the Pakistanis "for further insight into some things" - probably the type of the c.i.a. covert operations in the country ", and this requirement is talked is."

General Kayani of also the Obama said management has that got his advanced drone campaign of control, said a Pakistani official. Weed out given the reluctance or inability of Pakistani military Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters from the tribal areas, drone strikes, increasing the number of attacks in the past year have American officials are more and more to dramatically.

Eric Schmitt contributed reporting from Washington.

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Cameron gets Bloomberg for a fresh start in relations between Britain and Pakistan-

The British Prime Minister David Cameron, left, shakes hands with his Pakistani counterpart, Yousuf Raza GILANI arrive for talks in the the Pirme Minister House in Islamabad. Photographer: Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images

Prime Minister David Cameron called for a "new beginning" in relations between Britain and Pakistan, after he export items in the South Asian country last year accused terrorism.

He said Cameron, "Disabling the misunderstandings of the past" and "mark a new chapter" in relations between the two countries on his first visit to Pakistan since almost a year before taking office he now wants students in Islamabad.

"We want a strong relationship with a secure, prosperous, open and prosperous Pakistan," he said. "I confirm that there are challenges, to overcome our friendship must." "But I would like to now claim that they should no longer hold us not."

Cameron sparked a diplomatic storm when he during a visit to India in July that said Pakistan, a key ally in the war against the Taliban and al Qaeda fighters may not base along the border with Afghanistan, "Look both ways" terrorism or "promoting the export of terror, whether to Indienob Afghanistan or anywhere else in the world."

The dispute triggered concerns that Pakistan could limit intelligence-sharing, seen as crucial in preventing attacks in the United Kingdom, Jonathan Evans, Director General of MI5, the secret service said in September that Pakistan's half of all terrorist acts against the United Kingdom considered the tribal areas

"The most important for the European Governments a constant stream of intelligence of Pakistan,", said Zafar Nawaz Jasper, Professor of international relations from Quaid-e-Azam International University in Islamabad. Cameron is "trying to restore this relationship, if it damages after his comments in India."

Speaks to today with Cameron, Syed Yousuf Raza GILANI said Pakistan Prime Minister, that his country is committed to share intelligence to the fight against terror and willing.

"I would like to by the media, assure you that Pakistan has the determination and the commitment to the fight against extremism and terrorism, and we have the capability," GILANI Cameron said at a joint press conference in Islamabad. He said Pakistan "A very high price for his efforts, with thousands of people killed and injured, paid".

Cameron replied that the Pakistani Government in the "big fight" against terrorism is involved in the lives of the "many, many people."

Cameron made his comments in July of last year after military documents on the website Wikileaks published proposed that senior management, secretly the Taliban and other militant groups supported Pakistan's main intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence. He said later, he moved into "People in Pakistan" that are responsible for terrorism rather than the Government.

At his press conference with GILANI today, Cameron said United Kingdom and Pakistan had a "unbreakable" friendship and that it in British interests to see succeeded Pakistan. Accompanied by John Sawers, head of British secret intelligence service, and head of the armed forces, David Richards, Cameron talks earlier with GILANI, Army Chief Pervez Ashfaq Kayani and intelligence chief Ahmed Shujaa Pasha in Islamabad.

The two Prime Ministers signed a document detailing "Advanced strategic dialogue" United Kingdom to work with the United States and Pakistan commit to set up a "Centre for excellence", to share expertise in the fight against the roadside explosives. The bombs known as improvised explosive devices, are the "main threat" to British soldiers in Afghanistan, Foreign Minister William Hague said in October.

About 650 million pounds ($ 1.05 billion) aid include the agreement in the next four years 4 million of the Pakistani 17 million children not in school education provision. The countries committed to double trade between them to ￡ 2.5 billion per year in 2015.

Cameron urged Pakistan to increase taxes collects, arguing, that its current tax it makes difficult to GDP ratio of 10 percent to justify sending of aid from the United Kingdom, where the ratio is 36 percent.

"You are not raising pay funds for services that require a modern State and people," he said. "Too few taxes people pay." "Too many of your richest people are always way without paying much tax überhaupt-- and it is not fair."

The reporter on this story contact: Thomas penny in Islamabad on the tpenny@bloomberg.net.

The editor responsible for this story contact: James Hertling at jhertling@bloomberg.net.

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Explosion in Pakistan shrine kills dozens - New York Times

The attack at a popular shrine of a Sufi Saint, Sakhi Sarwar, in Dera Ghazi Khan, a remote district in the province of established Punjab, said police officials. An annual festival was the shrine connection underway as hundreds of worshippers pushed if the attackers blew up their explosives.

Police said that the attackers could be obtained not because of the strict security measures within the shrine.

With some of the wounded in critical condition, rescue officials said, was the number of casualties expected to increase.

A third attacker, he was seriously wounded, was arrested after his jacket explosives laden could not completely to the detonation. The man appeared from the tribal regions along the Afghan border, said police.

The injured were taken to a hospital. Emergency workers said that they faced difficulties in rescue saw.

Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan or movement of the Taliban, an umbrella organization of militant, responsibility for the attack claimed, Reuters reported.

Taliban fighters have attacks on Sufi shrines to around the country, together with Government targets and security force installations.

The attack on Sunday was considered another attempt by militant, strengthen the ideological divide, which exist in different schools of Sunni Islam.

Deobandis are a puritanical branch of Sunni Islam, which belong to most of the country's militant groups. Followers of the Barelvi sect, on the other hand believe in mysticism, venerate Saints and shrines, and considered to be tolerant and accommodating others.

If no accurate statistics are available, is estimated that more than 75% of the population of Pakistan keeps to the Barelvi School of thought, following many Sufi practices. Punjab, wealthy and populated province in the country, has a Barelvi majority. Hard-line Deobandis view Barelvis heretics.

Barelvi religious leaders described the attacks as an attempt to sow sectarian fighting.

"This is an act of terrorism by the Taliban," said Sahibzada Muhammad Fazal Kareem, a member of the European Parliament and head of the Sunni Ittihad Council, an Alliance of eight religious parties against the Taliban.

Mr Kareem said "Taliban want the peace of the country, and attacks on shrines destroy a heinous conspiracy, sectarian tensions and riots spark".

He criticized the Government for this, that adequate security on shrines.

The shrine of Sakhi Sarwar, Holy century is 25 km from the city in the southern part of the province of Punjab. Militant threats against the shrine exhibition had, said police officials.

Dera Ghazi Khan is bounded on the North-Western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and the province of Balochistan and is known as the gateway to the Punjab.

Recently, concerns were raised that, from the tribal regions of the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, formerly North-West Frontier Province, militant, Dera Ghazi Khan have used as a route, enter to Punjab.

Concerns about the increasing militancy and extremism have also in recent years in the southern province of Punjab, appeared with feudal influence is still powerful and most of the population impoverished and uneducated. The region also teems with madrasas or religious seminars.

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza GILANI condemned the attack.

"Such cowardly terrorist acts make it clear that the guilty involved all believe nor believe all people have values,", said a statement by the Prime Minister's Office.

Salman Masood reported from Islamabad and Waqar GILLANI from Lahore, Pakistan.

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