Pakistan: Let us hit drone targets

• The meeting will take place August 2, the official says
• The ISI chief will ask that Pakistan be allowed to conduct strikes
• "You (the U.S.) develop a target and let us hit it," he will say
• Pakistan has been critical of the drone program

Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- The new chief of Pakistan's spy agency will urge the United States to end drone strikes on Pakistani soil and identify targets that the country's security forces can then attack, a senior intelligence official said.

Lt. Gen. Zahirul Islam will deliver the message during a meeting with the head of the CIA on August 2, said the Pakistani intelligence official, who did not want to be named because he is not authorized to speak to the media.

"You (the U.S.) develop a target and let us hit it," Islam will tell CIA Director David Petraeus, the official said. "It would be ideal if the U.S. provides drone technology to Pakistan."

Islam's call will continue an ongoing refrain from Pakistan about the CIA's controversial drone program. Pakistani officials and lawmakers have demanded an immediate end to the drone strikes, saying they have led to civilian deaths.

In a rare public statement earlier this year, President Barack Obama's administration defended the use of unmanned drones to target suspected terrorists. John Brennan, the president's top counterterrorism adviser, said the strikes are conducted "in full accordance with the law."

The program uses unmanned aerial vehicles, often equipped with Hellfire missiles, to target suspected terrorists in remote locations overseas, with many such strikes occurring in Yemen and Pakistan.

The intelligence official said Pakistan's military is already operating in areas where the United States has conducted drone strikes. The Pakistani military carried out 61 operations in North Waziristan since January, he said.

North Waziristan, one of the seven districts of Pakistan's volatile tribal region bordering Afghanistan, is widely considered the stronghold of the Haqqani network, which the United States has accused of attacking NATO forces in neighboring Afghanistan.