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May 2, 2012
Pakistan summons US envoy over drone raid
By Sheila Samples
Pakistan summons a senior US envoy to lodge a formal protest over an assassination drone attack on a school in North Waziristan that left three civilians dead. The US says the operations target militants, although surveys show most of the victims are civilians. According to a Pakistani human rights lawyer, Shahzad Akbar, over 2,800 of the 3,000 people killed over the past seven years in drone strikes in Pakistan were civilians.
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Pakistan summons a senior US envoy to lodge a formal protest over an assassination drone attack on a school in North Waziristan that left three civilians dead. The US says the operations target militants, although surveys show most of the victims are civilians. According to a Pakistani human rights lawyer, Shahzad Akbar, over 2,800 of the 3,000 people killed over the past seven years in drone strikes in Pakistan were civilians.Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.