Live! Pakistan summons US envoy over drone strike
June 08, 2013  18:39
On the instructions of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, US Charge d' Affaires was summoned today by Pakistan's Foreign Office to lodge protest against a drone strike carried out in the restive tribal belt killing nine people.

The move comes two days after Sharif, who also holds foreign affairs portfolio, called for an end to the campaign by the CIA-operated spy planes.

"The US Charge d' Affaires, Ambassador Richard Hoagland, was summoned this afternoon to the Foreign Office by Special Assistant to the Prime Minister and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Mr Tariq Fatemi to lodge a strong protest on the US drone strike carried out in North Waziristan on June 7, 2013," said a statement from the Foreign Office spokesman.

The protest was lodged on the instructions of the prime minister, the statement said.
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