Three die in US spy aircraft in NW Pakistan
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Islamabad, Nov 3, IRNA -- An American spy aircraft fired three missiles into Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal region on Thursday and killed at least three people, local media said on Thursday.
The missiles hit a house at Dande Darpakhel, a border area along with Afghanistan in North Waziristan, Geo TV said.
The house was also destroyed in the attack.
It was not immediately known as to who killed in the strike.
The US spy aircraft routinely fire missiles into Waziristan tribal area as American officials claim that the militants launch cross-border attacks from the region into Afghanistan. Local tribesmen said that members of the Haqqani network had been living in Dande Darpakhel area for years but all had left the region as a result of military operation in 2005.
Jalaluddin Haqqani, a former Afghan Jehadi commander and father of Sirajuddin Haqqani, had established religious schools in the area during the 1979-89 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
Pakistan is under US pressure to launch major operation against the Haqqani network, blamed for attacks on US embassy in Kabul and a truck bomb attack on a US military base in Maidan Wardak province in September.
It was the 5th strike in Waziristan tribal region in a week.
On Monday, a US pilotless drone killed at least 4 people in North Waziristan. Also On Sunday, a US spy aircraft fired six missiles on a house in the same region and killed at least 6 people. At least ten people, including two Taliban commanders, were killed in both strikes in South and North Waziristan on Thursday.
The US has stepped up drone strikes in recent days despite strong opposition by the Pakistani Government. Opposition groups say that former President Pervez Musharraf had allowed US drone strike, but he denied the claim and insists that he had allowed only monitoring the movement of suspected militants.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani said last week that no permission had been granted to the United States to launch drone attacks on targets inside Pakistan.
Hundreds of tribesmen from Waziristan staged a rally in Islamabad on Friday and called for immediate halt to the American drone strikes in the tribal regions. They said that innocent people are killed in the strikes.
Islamic Republic News Agency/IRNA NewsCode: 30645707
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