Quietly, Pakistan Wages a Deadly Drone Campaign Inside Its Own Borders
In The News Piece in New York Times
U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Christian Clausen/Released
June 19, 2025
The New York Times cited New America's data on U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan in an article on Pakistan's use of drone strikes in its own territory.
According to the New America Foundation, the George W. Bush administration authorized 48 drone strikes inside Pakistan. Under President Barack Obama, the number surged to 353. The final recorded U.S. drone strike of his term, on May 21, 2016, killed Mullah Akhtar Mansour, the chief of the Afghan Taliban. President Trump ordered 13 strikes in Pakistan during his first year in office. No strikes have been documented since mid-2018.