11 Pakistanis Killed by US Drone Missile Strike in North Waziristan, June 2010

11 Pakistanis Killed by US Drone Missile Strike in North Waziristan

June 2010

US drone strike kills 11 in Pakistan: officials

Yesterday, 08:24 am

Hasbanullah Khan

The aircraft fired two missiles into the compound in Inzarabad village, 25 kilometres (15 miles) east of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan.

"Eleven (Taliban fighters) were killed and three wounded in a US drone strike," a senior Pakistani security official told AFP on condition of anonymity.

The same official had initially put the death toll at three.

US forces have been waging a covert drone war against Taliban commanders in Pakistan's northwest tribal belt, where militants have carved out havens in mountains outside direct government control.

It was the first US drone attack reported since twin strikes 12 hours apart killed 14 militants east of Miranshah on June 11.

The US military does not, as a rule, confirm drone attacks, but its armed forces and the Central Intelligence Agency operating in Afghanistan are the only forces that deploy pilotless drones in the region.

More than 900 people have been killed in over 100 drone strikes in Pakistan since August 2008.

Pakistani commanders have not ruled out an offensive in North Waziristan, but argue that gains in South Waziristan and the northwestern district of Swat need to be consolidated to prevent troops from being stretched too thinly.

12 killed , 16 injured in Mir Ali drone strike

Sunday, June 20, 2010

* Indefinite curfew imposed in Mir Ali, Miranshah and Dosalai

By Haji Mujtaba

PESHAWAR:

A US drone targeted a government-run tube-well in a village near North Waziristan’s Mir Ali sub-division on Saturday, killing at least 12 Taliban and injuring 16 others, Daily Times has learnt.

According to political administration sources, the US drone carried out the attack on the tube-well in the Soheele village at 10am.

The officials, however, could not confirm if any foreign militants were killed in the attack. The Taliban surrounded the tube-well after the attack and moved the bodies to an unknown location.

Curfew: After the incident, the political administration announced the imposition of an indefinite curfew in Mir Ali, Miranshah and Dosalai areas effective from 5:30am today (Sunday).

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