Telegraph: Human rights campaigners will today demand that American officials be held responsible for illegal killings carried out by drones and call for greater transparency over its secret programme.
A new report by Amnesty International details how civilians have been killed in Pakistan – including a 68-year-old grandmother who died in her family’s fields – and warns the US that some deaths may amount to war crimes.
It comes amid intense scrutiny of the CIA’s covert drone programme.
Nawaz Sharif, the Pakistani prime minister, is in Washington where he is expected to raise the issue of drones with Barack Obama days before a United Nations debate on the subject.
The strikes are intensely controversial in Pakistan, where they are frequently blamed for killing civilians and driving young men to terrorism.
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