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Over 1800 people killed in 184 US drone attacks in Pak since June 2004 | US drones have killed around 1,863 people so far in its 184 strikes staged inside Pakistani territory since June 18, 2004, sources have revealed.
Statistics show that a total of 53 drone attacks were carried out in Pakistan
by the US unmanned combat air vehicles in 2009, killing 709 people, mostly innocent
tribesmen including women and children, The News reported. The number of attacks
were 33 in 2008, killing 296 people, while 74 people were killed in four such
attacks in 2007, 23 in two attacks in 2006, seven in two attacks in 2005 and five
in one attack in 2004. But there has been an unprecedented surge in the drone
attacks in 2010, with the unmanned planes kicking off an aggressive operation
since the very first day of the year. A total of 749 people have been killed in
89 attacks so far this year. The month of September witnessed the maximum number
of attacks, with 16 strikes, followed by 11 drone hits in January. While some
top terrorists, including Baitullah Mahsud- Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief,
Sheikh Fateh al-Misri- the operational commander of al-Qaeda in the region, and
Nek Mohammad Wazir- a commander of the Pakistani Taliban, were killed in the
missile
attacks, the killings of numerous innocent tribesmen have triggered widespread
anger among the countrymen, the paper said. The matter had also been raised in
the upper and lower Houses of Parliament on several occasions, but it could not
bring a halt to the US drone attacks in Pakistani territory.
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