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US drones prowl over Waziristan, Pakistan concerned

ISLAMABAD/WANA: US drones prowled the sky over South Waziristan on Wednesday, a day after one of the aircraft attacked a stronghold of Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud.

Taliban fired at the drones and at least two turned back, said a resident.

A Taliban official told Reuters Mehsud had been in the area at the time of one of the two drone strikes but was not hurt. Security officials and villagers said the Taliban had sealed off the site.

Pakistan has conveyed its concern to the US over continued drone attacks in the Tribal Areas, a Foreign Office spokesman said on Wednesday.

“It has been ... [our stance] that drone attacks are a violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty and must be stopped. We are in regular contact with the US and our concerns over recent strikes have been put across strongly,” said the spokesman, adding that Pakistan’s own law-enforcement operations were “proceeding satisfactorily”. staff report/reuters

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