‘Drone attacks may be expanded to Quetta’
NEW YORK – Senior US officials are pushing to expand CIA drone strikes from Pakistan’s tribal areas to Quetta to pressurise Islamabad to pursue Taliban leaders reportedly based there, The Los Angeles Times reported on Monday.
But a report in NEWSWEEK said that President Barack Obama was resisting pressure to…
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