 LADHA: Assailants fired rockets apparently targeting Pakistani security forces in a northwestern tribal town, with one rocket slamming into a bazaar and another inside a base housing troops, officials said on Sunday. No one was reported hurt. Five rockets were fired in the attack late on Friday in Miranshah, the main town in the North Waziristan tribal area, a local government administrator, Iftikhar Ahmed Khattak, said. One rocket damaged a shop in the town’s bazaar, a second rocket hit a watch tower on the roof of a canteen in a base for paramilitary troops and three others slammed into fields, Khattak said. Army and paramilitary troops fired in the direction from where the rockets were believed to have been fired, but it was not known whether there were casualties among the attackers, he said. Islamic militants have been blamed for roadside bombings and rocket attacks against security forces in the region, bordering Afghanistan. |