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Participating in AFPAK strategy review, Pakistani leadership in Washignton DC this week has expressed alarm that the drone strikes are having a destabilizing effect on their country.

State Department sources have told SAMAA that FM Qureshi and ISI Chief Pasha yesterday voiced fears that the expected arrival of 17,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan in the spring and summer will add to the stresses by pushing more Taliban fighters into Pakistan.

Reports in Washington DC today underscore ominous signs of Al-Qaida's resilience and pointed to new and unintended dangers for U.S. policy in the region -- a destabilized, nuclear-armed Pakistan, a state with a weak civilian government and a military struggling to fight an expanding insurgency. (Feb 25, 2009)