Nearly a quarter of those killed by US drone strikes in Pakistan could have been civilians, a report claims.With Washington and London facing growing pressure to cut drone programmes, the figures are certain to inflame relationships with Pakistan.
The study released yesterday by the Council on Foreign Relations concludes, after scrutinising estimates from three monitoring groups, that of the 3520 killed by US drones in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia over the last 12 years, 457 - or 11 per cent - were civilians.
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