text: Pakistan tells US to leave 'drone' attack base - Telegraph
  Pakistan told the United States to leave a remote desert airbase reportedly used as a hub for covert CIA drone attacks, Defence Minister Ahmed Mukhtar was quoted by state media as saying on Wednesday.
  A supporter of Jamaat-e-Islami flashes the victory sign in front of an image of a drone, during a rally against drone attacks, in Karachi earlier this month Photo: REUTERS
  "We have told them (US officials) to leave the airbase," national news agency APP quoted Mukhtar as telling a group of journalists in his office.
  Despite condemning the drone strikes in public, US documents leaked by internet whistle-blower WikiLeaks late last year showed that Pakistani civilian and militant leaders had privately consented to the drone campaign.
  Thousands of troops have died fighting a home-grown Taliban insurgency in the northwest, although the military has not moved against those like the Haqqanis who confine their attacks to Afghanistan.