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Report: Pakistan ends US use of base for drone attacks

By REUTERS

JUNE 30, 2011 06:27

SINGAPORE - Pakistan has stopped the United States from using an air base in the southwest of the country to launch drone strikes against militant groups, the defense minister was quoted as saying, as ties remain strained between the two countries.

Pakistan has long publicly opposed the missile attacks as a violation of its sovereignty, but has in private given support including intelligence to help target members of al-Qaida and the Taliban in the northwest region along the Afghan border.

The Financial Times quoted Defense Minister Ahmed Mukhtar as saying that Pakistan had ended US drone flights out of Shamsi base in the southwestern province of Baluchistan, long reported to have been used for the covert war against militants.

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