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May 8th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda “The US has been informed of Pakistan’s concerns on drone strikes,” Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said during a meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS) in Islamabad on Monday.
Meanwhile, in an interview with Bloomberg Television on Saturday, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said that CIA drones would continue to strike Pakistan and rejected Pakistan’s stance that the strikes were a violation of the country’s sovereignty.
However, PCNS Chairman Senator Raza Rabbani told reporters in Islamabad that the CIA drone attacks are a violation of the country’s airspace.
Washington claims that its airstrikes target militants crossing the Afghanistan border, but local sources say civilians have been the main victims of the attacks.
Pakistanis have held many demonstrations to condemn the United States’ violations of their national sovereignty.
In addition, Foreign Minister Khar said that Islamabad had “no information about the presence of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Pakistan.”
Earlier, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is on a three-day visit to India, said in Kolkata on Monday, “There are several significant leaders still on the run. Zawahiri, who inherited the leadership from Bin Laden, is somewhere, we believe, in Pakistan.”
On January 31, President Barack Obama confirmed that the United States uses the unmanned drones in Pakistan and other countries.
In reply to questions about the use of the assassination drones by his administration in a chat with web users on Google+ and YouTube, the US president said, “a lot of these strikes have been in the FATA” — Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
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