Thousands of people in Peshawar in northwest Pakistan have begun a two-day protest against us drone attacks there.
The third drone attack within a week, the strikes have killed a total of 18 suspected militants.
The report also states that the civilian fatality rate has been 32 percent in drone attacks since 2004.
Pakistan has also demanded that the US cease drone attacks on its tribal area, which have increased over the last year, allegedly killing several "high-value" targets as well as many civilians.
The Strategic Dialogue is lagging; its spring 2011 meeting was postponed indefinitely after the last drone attacks.
For Mr Mehsud, who took over the leadership of the Pakistani Taliban last year after Baitullah Mehsud was killed by an American drone attack, the video is an obvious boost.
Spokesmen for the Pakistani Taliban said the group had chosen a new leader, Hakimullah Mehsud, following the death in a drone attack of its former chief, Baitullah Mehsud.
It might prefer, for example, to strike the fugitive Pakistani Taliban there using American drone attacks.
That raises suspicions that she is being used as a shield against American drone attacks on the Shabab, which have increased.
S. unmanned drone attacks and covert operations against suspected terrorist sanctuaries have inflamed public opinion in Pakistan and driven a wedge between the generals and the politicians.
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