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News Source: Daily News & Analysis
| 5 months ago
Three civilians and 15 security personnel were among the injured, TV news channels reported. The military convoy was stranded after the attack and there were reports of firing following the explosion...Authorities closed the road and suspended...
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News Source: The Hindu
| 5 months ago
While Beithullah Mehsud is said to have narrowly escaped being killed in a U.S. drone strike in South Waziristan on Tuesday, another top militant and an aide of the Taliban leader may not have been so fortunate, according to a media report. Dawn...
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| 5 months ago
Pakistan Thursday asked the United States to review its policy of drone attacks in its northwest tribal region, saying the attacks are counterproductive. "We would continue to convey the concern of the people of Pakistan to the United States,"...
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News Source: NewKerala
| 5 months ago
Mehsud was not at the spot at the time of Tuesday's attack, but had gone to pay his respects to a Taliban commander killed in another American drone strike earlier the same day, a Pakistani security official told the New York Times. Though the strike...
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News Source: BBC South Asia
| 5 months ago
On Wednesday, dozens of people were killed in a strike by a US drone aircraft in the militant stronghold of South Waziristan, reports said. Pakistan's army is preparing an assault on tribal areas near Afghanistan. But Pakistan has been publicly...
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News Source: NewKerala
| 5 months ago
At least two US Predator aircrafts were seen prowling over the TTP chief's stronghold region on Wednesday, The Daily Times reports. Local residents said that the militants had fired at the drones after the missile strike on Monday in which several...
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News Source: Jang.com.pk
| 5 months ago
There was no prominent militant commander among the 60-plus people killed in missile strikes by a US drone on funeral prayers in the violence-stricken South Waziristan on Tuesday. People who helped in shifting the injured to hospital in Miramshah in...
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News Source: The Daily Star
| 5 months ago
US drones prowled the sky over Pakistan's South Waziristan on Wednesday, a day after one of the aircraft attacked a stronghold of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, killing about 70 militants. The US attack came as the Pakistani army is...
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News Source: Lexington Herald-Leader
| 5 months ago
Here are details of some of the deadliest attacks, based on information from Pakistani officials: -June 24, 2009: Four suspected U.S. missiles strike a funeral procession at Makeen in South Waziristan for a militant killed in a strike earlier the...
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News Source: Asian Age
| 5 months ago
A deputy commander of Baitullah Mehsud said that they killed Qari Zainuddin because he was a rebel of Baitullah Mehsud led Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). In Islamabad, interior minister Rehman Malik said that the investigation of the murder of Qari...