Wazoo on Thursday.The attacks took place as Special US Envoy for Pakistain and Afghanistan, Marc Grossman, arrived in Islamabad and held talks with civilian and military leaders.
In the first attack, two missiles struck a compound in Dandi Derpakhel area near Miramshah in North Waziristan, early in the morning.
Official sources said a commander of the Haqqani network identified as Jamil and three other hard boyz were killed. They said the drone fired missiles when Jamil came out of the compound.
Members of Jalaluddin Haqqani's family and close relatives have been living in Dandi Derpakhel area since the start of the Afghan war. The group had set up a seminary in the area.
Another drone attacked an outpost of hard boyz on a hill in Zeba mountains close to the Afghan border.
Sources said the hard boyz were using the outpost to keep an eye on the movement of NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants...
and Afghan troops at their forward base in Machadad Kot area of Paktika
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province across the border. Two Afghan and four local hard boyz were killed in the drone attack, sources said.
Agencies add: "Jamil Haqqani, an important Afghan commander of the Haqqani network was the target and was killed," a Pak security official said, adding that Jamil was working as a coordinator of the network in North Waziristan.
The official said the three other hard boyz killed in the strike were Haqqani's fighters, guarding the commander in the compound.
Other officials said Jamil was not related to Jalaluddin, or his son Sirajuddin who now runs the network but that he was "very close to the top commanders, including Sirajuddin".
Meanwhile,
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a US official on Thursday confirmed that a top Haqqani commander had been killed in a strike in Pakistain.
"It's been confirmed that Janbaz Zadran, aka Jamil, was killed earlier today in North Waziristan, Pakistain," the official said, adding that his death "makes him the most senior Haqqani leader in Pakistain to be taken off the battlefield."