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15 militants killed in US drone attack in North Waziristan | At least 15 militants have reportedly been killed in a latest US drone attack in Shaktoi region in North Waziristan. The US drones targeted a
militant hideout in the region, 40 kilometres southeast of Miranshah, destroying
the building completely. “The target was a militant compound. At least 15 bodies
have been recovered from the rubble so far,” The News quoted a senior military
official, as saying. This is the second such missile hit in the region in as many
days. On Friday, 11 extremists were killed in twin drones strikes in the same
region. The strike took place close to the region where the Tehreek-e-Taliban
Pakistan ( TTP ) Hakimullah Mehsud was believed to have been killed in a similar
strike earlier this week. Earlier, a Pakistani security official had claimed that
the drone attack which killed at least ten people, had also left three militant
commanders dead, including Mehsud. However, a TTP spokesperson said that while
Mehsud was in the area of northwest Pakistan where a US drone strike killed 10
people on Thursday, he left before the missiles hit. While Pakistan has raised
objections over such strikes on a number of occasion, the Obama administration
has made it clear that it would continue with its plan of targeting the extremists
hiding inside Pakistan ’s terrirtory along the Afghan border. Foreign Minister
Shah Mehmood Qureshi , recently, said that the missile strikes or any ground
operations inside Pakistan would affect bilateral ties with the US. |
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