US drones flying from Jalalabad

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US drones flying from Jalalabad

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The CIA three months ago suspended its long-standing use of an air base in Pakistan, US newspaper.

02 July,2011 07:07 am

According to a US newspaper, the US and Pakistani officials said the launches were halted in April after a dispute over a CIA contractor, Raymond Davis, who killed two Pakistani citizens in Lahore.All US drone strikes in the past three months have been launched from Afghanistan, in the vicinity of Jalalabad, according to the officials, who spoke about intelligence matters on the condition of anonymity.According to the paper, officials from both countries said the rupture in their intelligence cooperation has slowly begun to heal.Pakistan has reversed its freeze on visas for the US intelligence officials, they said, and allowed dozens of CIA personnel to re-enter the country.