Pakistan new spy agency chief to tell CIA: End drone strikes; Let us targets for us to attack

Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- The new chief of
Pakistan's spy agency will urge the United States to end drone strikes
on Pakistani soil and identify targets that the country's security
forces can then attack, a senior intelligence official said.
Lt. Gen. Zahirul Islam
will deliver the message during a meeting with the head of the CIA on
August 2, said the Pakistani intelligence official, who did not want to
be named because he is not authorized to speak to the media.
"You (the U.S.) develop a
target and let us hit it," Islam will tell CIA Director David Petraeus,
the official said. "It would be ideal if the U.S. provides drone
technology to Pakistan."




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Islam's call will
continue an ongoing refrain from Pakistan about the CIA's controversial
drone program. Pakistani officials and lawmakers have demanded an
immediate end to the drone strikes, saying they have led to civilian
deaths.
In keeping with its
general policy, the CIA would not comment on meetings between the
director and senior officials from other states, including whether the
Pakistani intelligence chief was coming to Washington. But a U.S.
official, who spoke on condition of anonymity when discussing
intelligence matters, said the United States "supports the Pakistanis
taking more responsibility for ridding the tribal areas of al Qaeda and
its militant allies."
"The Pakistanis clearly
have had, and will have, opportunities to show they are serious about
taking actions with a practical effect on rooting out terrorists," the
official said, adding there were "several actions" Pakistan could take
to get rid of al Qaeda, the Pakistani arm of the Taliban and the Haqqani
network -- a Pakistan-based militant group blamed for numerous attacks
on U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan.
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In a rare public
statement earlier this year, President Barack Obama's administration
defended the use of unmanned drones to target suspected terrorists. John
Brennan, the president's top counterterrorism adviser, said the strikes
are conducted "in full accordance with the law."
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The program uses
unmanned aerial vehicles, often equipped with Hellfire missiles, to
target suspected terrorists in remote locations overseas, with many such
strikes occurring in Yemen and Pakistan.
The intelligence
official said Pakistan's military is already operating in areas where
the United States has conducted drone strikes. The Pakistani military
carried out 61 operations in North Waziristan since January, he said.
North Waziristan, one of
the seven districts of Pakistan's volatile tribal region bordering
Afghanistan, is widely considered the stronghold of the Haqqani network.
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