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Pakistan Urges US to Halt Missile Strikes

HeadlineNov 04, 2008

In news from Pakistan, Pakistan’s defense minister is urging the United States to halt missile strikes inside Pakistan because it is fuming anti-American sentiments. Pakistani Defense Minister Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar issued the blunt warning to Gen. David H. Petraeus, the new head of US Central Command. At least 100 people have been killed in seventeen US air strikes in Pakistan over the past two months.

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