Pakistan Joins Exclusive Drone Club, With Nod to China

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Pakistan this week became the world’s fifth known country to use an armed drone in combat, and it can probably thank China.

Laser-guided missiles fired from the Burraq armed drone killed three "terrorists" in a mountainous region near the Afghan border on Sunday, according to Pakistan’s military.