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The lawyers, representing Doctor Shakeel Afridi jailed after helping the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) find slain al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, appealed against his conviction on June 1, reports Daily Times. Afridi was on May 23, 2012 sentenc
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The lawyers, representing Doctor Shakeel Afridi jailed after helping the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) find slain al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, appealed against his conviction on June 1, reports Daily Times. Afridi was on May 23, 2012 sentenced to 33 years in jail. He was arrested after United States (US) troops killed bin Laden in May 2011 in Abbottabad where he set up a fake vaccination programme in the hope of obtaining DNA samples to identify the al Qaeda leader. But he was convicted for treason over alleged ties to terrorist group Lashkar-e-Islam (LI) and not for working for the CIA, for which the court said it did not have jurisdiction. The appeal, filed by his brother Jamil Afridi through lawyers, said the allegations were “false, concocted and without foundation”. It said Afridi had “no association” with LI and that the conviction should be dismissed because he had no opportunity of defence or fair trial. The appeal said Afridi was abducted by LI in 2008 and ordered to pay PKR 1 million. The court said Afridi paid PKR 2 million to the faction and helped to provide medical assistance to terrorist commanders in Khyber Agency of Federally Administered tribal Areas (FATA). The terrorists have denied any links to Afridi, saying they fined him for over-charging patients, and have threatened to kill him.
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June - 4 
US drone attack killed 15 militants in Hisokhel, east of Miranshah, the headquarter of North Waziristan Agency of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) on June 4, reports Daily Times. Officials said two missiles slammed into a compound in the vi
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US drone attack killed 15 militants in Hisokhel, east of Miranshah, the headquarter of North Waziristan Agency of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) on June 4, reports Daily Times. Officials said two missiles slammed into a compound in the village of Hisokhel before dawn. “Fifteen terrorists were killed in a dawn strike on a compound. The bodies of those killed were unable to be identified,” a security official in Miranshah said. He said there were unconfirmed reports that foreigners were among the dead. In the debris, local people found letterheads of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), wooden beds, blankets and mattresses. Dawn reported that al Qaeda’s ‘second-in-command’ Abu Yahya al-Libi was the target of the US drone strike. US officials confirmed to The New York Times that Libi had been the target of the missile attack in North Waziristan, but could not say whether he had survived. A senior Pakistani security source in Peshawar, meanwhile, told The New York Times that it “looks like he has been killed.”
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June - 5 
The United States (US) on June 5 said that al Qaeda number two Abu Yahya al-Libi was killed in a drone attack at Hisokhel, east of Miranshah, the headquarter of North Waziristan Agency of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) on June 4, reports
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The United States (US) on June 5 said that al Qaeda number two Abu Yahya al-Libi was killed in a drone attack at Hisokhel, east of Miranshah, the headquarter of North Waziristan Agency of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) on June 4, reports Dawn. “Our government has been able to confirm al-Libi’s death,” said White House spokesman Jay Carney, ending a prolonged US tussle with a man who once escaped from a US jail in Afghanistan, and had defied previous attempts to kill him. “It is significant,” another US official said, saying Libi headed al Qaeda operations in Pakistan and had outreached to affiliates such as Yemen-based al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which has attacked US targets. News of the killing of Libi followed reports detailing the scope of the US campaign against global terrorism, including revelations that President Barack Obama personally presides over a “kill list” of top suspects. Al Libi, a hero in militant circles for his 2005 escape from the US military prison in Bagram, Afghanistan, was elevated to al-Qaeda’s No. 2 spot when Ayman al-Zawahri rose to replace the slain Osama bin Laden. Militants and residents in the area told Pakistani agents that al-Libi was in the house when it was hit, Pakistani intelligence officials said. They said the mud and brick house was completely destroyed. A local Taliban chief, on condition of anonymity, said al-Libi was not present at the house, though his guard and driver were killed. However, residents of the village said Libi was killed as an unusually high number of militants gathered there after the drone strike and they kept people away. They usually bury the bodies after a drone strike in the nearest graveyard, said one of the villagers, describing the aftermath of previous strikes in the area. This time they put all the bodies in their cars and took them away.
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June - 6 
United States (US) State Department Spokesman Mark Toner said on June 6 that though Pakistan has formally informed the US that sentencing of Doctor Shakeel Afridi was not linked to his help in tracing slain al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, there seem
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United States (US) State Department Spokesman Mark Toner said on June 6 that though Pakistan has formally informed the US that sentencing of Doctor Shakeel Afridi was not linked to his help in tracing slain al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, there seems to be no change in the view of Obama administration that 33 year imprisonment to the physician was not justified, reports The Times of India. "We continue to express our concerns about his continued incarceration. We have actually gotten some clarity that the charges against him are not related to the bin Laden case apparently," said the official. "We did get a response from the Pakistani Government. This, however, doesn't change our view that the prosecution and conviction of Doctor Afridi sends the wrong message about the importance of our shared interest in taking down one of the world's most notorious murderers, bin Laden. So we would just continue to urge the Pakistani Government to consider his appeal," he added.
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June - 7 
Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou warned on June 7 that jihadi fighters from Afghanistan and Pakistan are training militant groups in northern Mali, reported Dawn. “We have information on the presence of Afghans and Pakistanis in northern Mali…The
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Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou warned on June 7 that jihadi fighters from Afghanistan and Pakistan are training militant groups in northern Mali, reported Dawn. “We have information on the presence of Afghans and Pakistanis in northern Mali…They are believed to be working as instructors,” he told the France 24 News Channel. “They are the ones who are training those who have been recruited across various West African countries,” said Issoufou. Mali has plunged into chaos since the collapse of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in Libya in 2011 scattered mercenaries and weapons across the Sahel. The Tuareg rebels fought alongside a previously unknown militant group called Ansar Dine (Defenders of Faith), which is believed to be backed by al Qaeda’s North African branch. Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has been active for years in northern Mali, where it has launched attacks against Government Army positions, kidnapped foreigners and allegedly benefitted from drug running. “I think all these organisations cooperate amongst themselves, whether the Shebab in Somalia, Boko Haram in Nigeria, AQIM in Algeria and in the Sahel in general, all the way to Afghanistan,” he said. “Our concern is that the Sahel not becomes a new Afghanistan.” Issoufou said he feared the hardline militant groups regrouping in northern Mali could spread to his country, which has also been hit by AQIM attacks in recent years. “These groups in northern Mali are continuing to get their supply of weapons from south western Libya,” he said.
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June - 7 
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton implicitly defended Washington’s use of drone strikes to kill suspected terrorists. “We will always maintain our right to use force against groups such as al Qaeda that have attacked us and still threaten us with im
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton implicitly defended Washington’s use of drone strikes to kill suspected terrorists. “We will always maintain our right to use force against groups such as al Qaeda that have attacked us and still threaten us with imminent attack,” Clinton said in Istanbul. “In doing so, we will comply with the applicable law, including the laws of war, and go to extraordinary lengths to ensure precision and avoid the loss of innocent life,” she told the Global Counterterrorism Forum, a US- and Turkish-chaired group.
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June - 8 
A Federal Judge James Zagel on June 8, sentenced a Pakistan-born Chicago taxi driver Raja Lahrasib Khan (58) to seven and a half years in prison for attempting to send money to Ilyas Kashmiri a terrorist with alleged links to al Qaeda and leader of
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A Federal Judge James Zagel on June 8, sentenced a Pakistan-born Chicago taxi driver Raja Lahrasib Khan (58) to seven and a half years in prison for attempting to send money to Ilyas Kashmiri a terrorist with alleged links to al Qaeda and leader of Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HUJI), telling him that he had violated a citizenship oath made to God promising never to do harm to the United States (US) reports Dawn. Khan unfolded a piece of crumpled paper and read a brief statement apologising for seeking to send funds to Pakistan-based terrorist Ilyas Kashmiri. ”I made a bad decision. I did something for which I am ashamed,” said Khan. After Khan’s arrest, authorities accused him of taking steps to send cash to Kashmiri after Kashmiri indicated he needed money for explosives. Khan believed Kashmiri was getting orders from Osama bin Laden, prosecutors said. He sent USD 950 in 2009 to an individual in Pakistan for delivery to Kashmiri; he also took USD 1,000 from an undercover agent, allegedly believing that it would be used to buy weapons and possibly other supplies.
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June - 9 
The Times of India while quoting the United States (US) Counterterrorism officials on June 9, reported that the death of al Qaeda's ‘Deputy leader’, Abu Yahya al-Libi on June 4, 2012 is likely to accelerate a shift in power from the group's dwindling
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The Times of India while quoting the United States (US) Counterterrorism officials on June 9, reported that the death of al Qaeda's ‘Deputy leader’, Abu Yahya al-Libi on June 4, 2012 is likely to accelerate a shift in power from the group's dwindling leadership in Pakistan to its increasingly autonomous franchises, particularly the branch in Yemen, whose focus on attacking American interests is sure to continue. American counterterrorism officials said Libi had played a pivotal role as the organization's theological traffic cop, enforcing a unified message and ensuring that younger fighters in the affiliates did not go off the rails. For now, Ayman al-Zawahri, Qaeda's nominal leader, still holds the broad influence that he has consolidated since Osama bin Laden's death on May1-2, 2011. But the hierarchical structure of global jihad may be loosening a bit. Libi's death in a drone strike has torn at the connective tissue between the group's embattled leadership in Pakistan and its far-flung affiliates across the Middle East and Africa. Libi's killing may even augur increased violence as younger, more impetuous fighters vie to seize mantle of global leadership, said analysts. Osama Bin Laden himself, in the documents that US navy SEALs recovered from his house in Abbottabad, worried about "the rise of lower leaders who are not as experienced and this would lead to the repeat of mistakes."
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June - 10 
A website that posts messages from terrorist groups said on June 10 that it would reveal a video message from slain al Qaeda leader Abu Yahya al Libi, according to Daily Times. “Soon, God willing: a visual message from Abu Yahya al Libi,” a notice po
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A website that posts messages from terrorist groups said on June 10 that it would reveal a video message from slain al Qaeda leader Abu Yahya al Libi, according to Daily Times. “Soon, God willing: a visual message from Abu Yahya al Libi,” a notice posted on a forum said, without elaborating on when the message was recorded.
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June - 10 
Two websites linked to al Qaeda on June 10 announced that they will air a new video featuring the jihadist network’s deputy leader Abu Yahya al-Libi, whom Washington claimed to have killed in a drone strike in North Waziristan Agency of Federally Adm
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Two websites linked to al Qaeda on June 10 announced that they will air a new video featuring the jihadist network’s deputy leader Abu Yahya al-Libi, whom Washington claimed to have killed in a drone strike in North Waziristan Agency of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) on June 4, 2012, reports The Express Tribune. The messages posted by Ansar and Alfidaa websites suggested that Libi remains alive. “Soon, a video message by Sheikh Abu Yahya al-Libi will be posted, may Allah protect him,” read the message posted by al Qaeda’s Sahab media arm.
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June - 12 
Senior Minister Bashir Bilour on June 12 told the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly that the provincial Government had discussed with the Federal Government the shifting of Doctor Shakil Afridi, who allegedly helped Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) track
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Senior Minister Bashir Bilour on June 12 told the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly that the provincial Government had discussed with the Federal Government the shifting of Doctor Shakil Afridi, who allegedly helped Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) track down slain al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, to other jails from the Central Prison Peshawar, reports The News. Responding to the points raised by the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid deputy parliamentary leader Nighat Orakzai, he said the Provincial Government was waiting for the response of the Federal Government. He said the Provincial Government would shift Doctor Shakil Afridi to the Balahisar Fort in Peshawar if he was not shifted to any other province. “As far as his security is concerned the Provincial Government has provided all the possible security to him at the Central Prison Peshawar,” the Minister said.
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June - 13 
A new video featuring al Qaeda’s number two Abu Yahya al-Libi, who the United States (US) says was killed on June 4, 2012 in a drone strike in North Waziristan Agency of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in Pakistan, has been posted online,
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A new video featuring al Qaeda’s number two Abu Yahya al-Libi, who the United States (US) says was killed on June 4, 2012 in a drone strike in North Waziristan Agency of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in Pakistan, has been posted online, reports Dawn referring to monitoring services. Both the SITE Monitoring Service and IntelCentre, which keep tabs on militants’ websites, said it was not clear when the video had been made. SITE said the video production date only indicated it had been produced by al Qaeda’s media arm As-Sahab sometime after November 2011. In the video, Libi denounces Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as a “tyrant” and calls his Government a “criminal regime”, according to the SITE’s translation. He urges the Syrian people to continue fighting and calls on fighters in Iraq, Jordan and Turkey “to rise to help their brothers and to sacrifice themselves for them.”
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June - 14 
Recent revelations about clandestine United States (US) drone campaigns against al Qaeda and other militants are not part of two major leak investigations being conducted by federal prosecutors, sources familiar with the inquiries said on June 14, re
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Recent revelations about clandestine United States (US) drone campaigns against al Qaeda and other militants are not part of two major leak investigations being conducted by federal prosecutors, sources familiar with the inquiries said on June 14, reports Dawn. Most detailed information on the drone wars, which were initiated by the George W. Bush administration but expanded by President Barack Obama, is highly classified, officials said. But Obama and top administration officials, including White House counter-terrorism Chief John Brennan, recently have been alluding more openly to drone operations in public remarks, and detailed news coverage has been widespread. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has not filed a “crime report” with the Justice Department over reports about Obama’s drone policy and a US “kill list” of targeted militants, an action which often would trigger an official leak investigation, two sources familiar with the matter said requesting anonymity. However, the CIA did file a “crime report” following publication by the Associated Press last month of a report disclosing the foiling of a plot by Yemen-based al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula to attack an airliner using a newly designed underwear bomb, sources said. Officials said the second leak investigation involves a series of revelations in a book and article by a The New York Times journalist about the alleged role of US agencies in cyber-warfare activities against Iran.
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June - 14 
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on June 14 stalled a move to cut off United States (US) aid to the country, reports Dawn. The amendment, proposed by Republican Senator Rand Paul, would have stopped US aid to Pakistan until the country released Doct
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on June 14 stalled a move to cut off United States (US) aid to the country, reports Dawn. The amendment, proposed by Republican Senator Rand Paul, would have stopped US aid to Pakistan until the country released Doctor Shakeel Afridi who helped Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) find Osama bin Laden. “I have an amendment that’s very important,” Senator Paul said. “It’s very important that we send Pakistan a signal that we are not willing to send a welfare cheque when they’re holding in prison a political prisoner who helped us get Bin Laden.
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June - 17 
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in North Waziristan has declared a ban on the polio vaccination programme in the tribal agency as long as drone attacks continue in the region, The Hindu reported on June 17. This ban was announced on June 16 thro
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The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in North Waziristan has declared a ban on the polio vaccination programme in the tribal agency as long as drone attacks continue in the region, The Hindu reported on June 17. This ban was announced on June 16 through a press release which claimed polio affected only few in comparison to drones which killed large numbers indiscriminately. According to local media, the statement said: “After consultation with the Taliban Shura, servant of Mujahideen in North Waziristan Agency Hafiz Gul Bahadur has decided that there will be a ban on polio campaign as long as drone strikes are not stopped.” The statement also argued the polio campaign was just a front for the U.S. to spy inside Pakistan and made a reference to Shakeel Afridi, the doctor who helped the CIA confirm the presence of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad by getting his family's DNA samples through a health programme.
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June - 19 
A United Nations (UN) investigator, Christof Heyns, on June 19 called on the US President Barak Obama administration to justify its policy of assassinating rather than capturing al Qaeda or Taliban suspects, increasingly with the use of unmanned dron
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A United Nations (UN) investigator, Christof Heyns, on June 19 called on the US President Barak Obama administration to justify its policy of assassinating rather than capturing al Qaeda or Taliban suspects, increasingly with the use of unmanned drone aircraft that also take civilian lives, reports Daily Times. Heyns, UN special rapporteur on extra-judicial, summary or arbitrary executions, in a report issued overnight to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), urged Washington to clarify the basis under international law of the policy. The US military has conducted drone attacks in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen, in addition to conventional raids and air strikes, according to Heyns. “Disclosure of these killings is critical to ensure accountability, justice and reparation for victims or their families,” he said in a 28-page report. “While these attacks are directed at individuals believed to be leaders or active members of al Qaeda or Taliban, in the context of armed conflict (example in Afghanistan), in other instances, civilians have allegedly also perished in the attacks in regions where it is unclear whether there was an armed conflict or not (example in Pakistan),” he said. Human rights law requires that every effort be made to arrest a suspect, in line with the “principles of necessity and proportionality on the use of force”, the investigator said. Citing figures from the Pakistan Human Rights Commission, he said US drone strikes killed at least 957 people in Pakistan in 2010 alone. Thousands have been killed in 300 drone strikes there since 2004, 20 percent of whom are believed to be civilians. “Although figures vary widely with regard to drone attack estimates, all studies concur on one important point – there has been a dramatic increase in their use over the past three years,” Heyns said.
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June - 20 
A French-al Qaeda leader, Naamen Meziche, linked to the September 11, 2001 (also known as 9/11) attacks was arrested near the Pakistan-Iran border, reports Daily Times on June 20. A Western terror expert said Meziche was arrested in May in Quetta (Ba
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A French-al Qaeda leader, Naamen Meziche, linked to the September 11, 2001 (also known as 9/11) attacks was arrested near the Pakistan-Iran border, reports Daily Times on June 20. A Western terror expert said Meziche was arrested in May in Quetta (Balochistan) as he was travelling to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). Meziche was detained after disclosures by Younis al Mauritani, apparently tasked by Osama bin Laden to plot attacks on Australia, Europe and the United States (US) and captured in Pakistan in 2011, the Pakistani official said.
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June - 20 
An official for the holding facility where neuroscientist Doctor Aafia Siddiqui is serving her prison sentence denied rumours of her death on June 20, reports The Express Tribune. Speaking to the media, Doctor Maria Douglas, a spokesperson for Federa
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An official for the holding facility where neuroscientist Doctor Aafia Siddiqui is serving her prison sentence denied rumours of her death on June 20, reports The Express Tribune. Speaking to the media, Doctor Maria Douglas, a spokesperson for Federal Medical Center Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, where Doctor Siddiqui is imprisoned, vehemently denied rumours and said that it was absolutely false that Doctor Siddiqui had passed away, adding that no medical emergency has arisen. Earlier, text messages were circulating in Pakistan claiming that Doctor Siddiqui had passed away at the prison facility. Doctor Siddiqui, a neuroscientist by profession and a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), allegedly went missing for five years before she was discovered in Afghanistan. The prosecution says that she tried to fire on a United States (US) soldier during her interrogation. She has also been accused of working for al Qaeda. She was sentenced to 86 years in prison in 2010 by a New York court. A statement issued by the Embassy of Pakistan also confirmed that Doctor Siddiqui was alive and quite well.
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June - 21 
US diplomats working in Pakistan face increasing harassment amid a sharp deterioration in ties in the wake of last year’s killing of Osama bin Laden, a State Department report said on June 21, The Express Tribune reported. Such harassment and obstruc
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US diplomats working in Pakistan face increasing harassment amid a sharp deterioration in ties in the wake of last year’s killing of Osama bin Laden, a State Department report said on June 21, The Express Tribune reported. Such harassment and obstruction is described by US embassy staff as “deliberate, willful and systematic,” according to the 76-page report by the department’s watchdog, the office of inspector general. “Official Pakistani obstructionism and harassment, an endemic problem in Pakistan, has increased to the point where it is significantly impairing mission operations and program implementations,” the report said. Harassment included such things as delaying visas for staff, blocking shipments of materials for aid programs and construction work, and surveillance of staff and contractors.
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June - 24 
The United States (US) on June 24 said that Pakistan Government is "deliberately, willfully and systematically" harassing and obstructing American diplomats in the country, marking a new low in the already strained ties between the two nations, repor
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The United States (US) on June 24 said that Pakistan Government is "deliberately, willfully and systematically" harassing and obstructing American diplomats in the country, marking a new low in the already strained ties between the two nations, reports Times of India. The harassment and obstruction has increased dramatically and reached "new levels of intensity", said a State Department report, which has urged Washington to take the issue up at bilateral talks with Islamabad. The Department's internal watchdog said the harassment of diplomats had heightened since the May, 2011 US raid on a compound in Pakistan that killed Osama bin Laden and rose further after November 26 NATO air strike killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, prompting Islamabad to block NATO supply lines into Afghanistan. "Official Pakistani obstructionism and harassment, an endemic problem in Pakistan, has increased to the point where it is significantly impairing mission operations and programme implementation," said an internal report of the US State Department office of Inspector General.
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