(CNN) -- The past year has seen the number of CIA drone strikes in Pakistan plummet. In the first three months of 2012, there were 11, compared with 21 in the first three months of 2011 and a record 28 in the first quarter of 2010. On Monday, Pakistan's parliament started to debate whether the United States should be made to stop CIA drone strikes altogether in the Pakistani border regions with Afghanistan and also whether the U.S. should apologize for NATO airstrikes that killed some two dozen Pakistani soldiers late last year. Given the high level of hostility to the United States in Pakistan, the results of the parliamentary debate are pretty much a foregone conclusion. The parliament will almost certainly vote against the allowing the continuation of the drone strikes and will also demand an American apology for the deaths of its soldiers.
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Authors: America's drone war in Pakistan is much diminished
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They say it's a victim of a deeply troubled relationship between U.S., Pakistan
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U.S. raid on bin Laden and other incidents sparked anger from Pakistanis, they say
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Drones have killed many al Qaeda leaders, and some targets are low level, they say
At 2 a.m. November 26, two Pakistani border posts about half a kilometer from the Afghan border came under heavy fire from @placeholder helicopters that had strayed across the border into Pakistani airspace.
For many months before this incident, the @placeholder' aggressive drone campaign in Pakistan had been slowing.
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