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As early as last year August, US has launched several drone attacks that claimed to be targeting Taliban hideouts. However, each attack often brought about high civilian casualties, causing the uproar of civilians and local officials. The authority had arranged meetings with US president regarding issue on drone attack, urging the needs to keep civilian casualties low.

Recently, US troops have targeted an area that they believed to be a refuge camp for Taliban militants. Attacks were launched on two separate occasion, whereby the first took the lives of 12 militants and the second claimed lives of seven. Though drone attacks have far been successful in eradicating militants, however, Pakistan is especially concerned on the rise of resentment towards the killing of innocent civilians. The latter claimed that such massive killings could lead to civilians being supportive of militants.

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