In Pakistan, an estimated 10,000 people took part in a rally Sunday denouncing US military drone attacks on Pakistani soil. Pakistani political leader Syed Munawar Hasan said the US presence in the region is bringing violence and militarization.

Syed Munawar Hasan: “All foreign troops, NATO and other forces should immediately go back from this region. America should leave this country and this region. The presence of the US and NATO forces will intensify the extremism and terrorism here. It was a peaceful land, which now has been turned into terrorists’ soil by America and its allies.”

At least sixty people were believed to have been killed in the latest US drone attack in Pakistan’s South Waziristan region last week.