A U.S. drone strike on Saturday killed at least three Islamic gunnies in Pakistain's restive tribal region near the Afghan border, security officials said.The strike took place in the Datta Khel area of North
Wazoo, known as a bastion of the Taliban and al-Qaeda. The drone targeted a moving vehicle and fired two missiles, they said."The identity of the gunnies was immediately unclear but this area is mostly occupied by members of the orc commander Gul Bahadur's group," a security official in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Another official on the ground in Miranshah
... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a
ministatein centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas...
said that the vehicle had been driving through a village 35 kilometres (around 20 miles) west of Miranshah, the headquarters of North Waziristan tribal district, when it was hit.
"We have reports that two gunnies of Gul Bahadur group were also injured in the attack," he told AFP on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media.
The security officials said that the vehicle was engulfed in flames after the attack and gunnies cordoned off the area, not allowing anybody to go closer, while they removed the bodies.
The al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani network in North Waziristan, blamed for some of the deadliest attacks in Afghanistan, is one of the thorniest issues between Islamabad and Washington.
Washington has long demanded that Pakistain take action against the Haqqanis, whom the United States accused of attacking the U.S. embassy in Kabul last September and acting like the "veritable arm" of Pak intelligence.