» US surveillance drone crashes in Pakistan

QUETTA, Pakistan (AFP) – An American surveillance drone crashed in southwestern Pakistan on Thursday near a paramilitary base close to the Afghan border, Pakistani officials said. “It was an American surveillance unmanned aerial vehicle. It crashed on this side of the border,” a security official in the area told AFP. He said the drone had come down — apparently due to a technical fault — some two kilometres inside Pakistani territory in Chaman town in insurgency-hit Baluchistan province, but had caused no damage.