Article: US drone attacks counterproductive - Pakistan's Sharif.

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May 26, 2009
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Text of report headlined "Drone attacks promoting militancy - Nawaz" by Pakistani newspaper The News website on 26 May

Lahore [Punjab Province]: PML-N Quaid [Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) chief] Nawaz Sharif has said that drone attacks are counterproductive in fighting extremism because these are creating more militants and extremists.

He was talking to a five-member US delegation of Senators that called on him along with US embassy officials at his Raiwind residence on Monday [25 May]. The attacks violate Pakistan's sovereignty and territorial integrity, he said. Apart from stopping drone attacks, the US should fulfil its promises of solving the ...

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