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KARACHI: A recent research by the   Bureau of Investigative Journalism   found that only 12% of drone victims in Pakistan have been identified as militants. Moreover, the research also stated that fewer than 4% of the people killed have been identified as members of al Qaeda.   The research contradicts US Secretary of State John Kerry’s claim last year that only “confirmed terrorist targets at the highest level” were fired at. The number of US drone strikes in Pakistan has hit 400 between June 2004 and October 2013. Of the 2,370 people killed in these strikes, 704 have been identified, of which only 295 were reported to be members of some kind of armed group. More than a third of them were not designated a rank, and almost 30% are not even linked to a specific group. The Bureau has a project titled Naming the Dead, which has gathered the names and details of people killed by CIA drones in Pakistan since June 2004. According to Mustafa Qadri, a Pakis...