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Husain Haqqani

Director of the Center for International Relations at Boston University, Husain Haqqani is associate researcher at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He was adviser to Pakistan’s Prime Ministers: Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto. He is the author of Pakistan Between Mosque and Military.

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“Air strikes expose an uneven alliance”

by Husain Haqqani

3 February 2006

A CIA drone plane attacked the Damadola village in Pakistan to eliminate Ayman Al Zawahiri, Al Qaeda’s second in command. Al Zawahiri is a legitimate target ,but instead, 18 people died and 14 of them, at least, were Pakistani civilians. The reports affirm the other four were members of Al (…)