... 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...
, the main town of North
Wazoo tribal agency of Pakistain bordering Afghanistan, DawnNews reported late Wednesday night.The attack took place around midnight in Qutab Khel village, five kilometres (three miles) south of Miranshah.
News agency AFP, however, reported three deaths.
"A US drone fired two missiles on a krazed killer compound, killing at least three suspected krazed killers," a security bigshot told AFP. 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.
confirmed the attack and casualties.
Another official in Miranshah put the corpse count at four and said a fifth krazed killer was maimed.
The identities of those killed in the strike were not immediately known but officials suspect that they were of Afghan origin.
The area residents surrounded the house after the attack and pulled out the bodies, sources said, adding the bodies were charred beyond recognition.
The unmanned aircraft kept flying over the area after the strike that took place at around midnight, they said.
This was the first drone strike in the area during the month.
North Waziristan is one of seven semi-autonomous regions in Pakistain's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) governed by tribal laws.
The region is chiefly off-limits to news hounds because of security worries and government restrictions due to which reliable casualty figures are difficult to acquire from there.
An Death Eater insurgency led by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) plagues the region, known to be infested with krazed killers, including those from Al Qaeda and other armed Death Eater organizations.
Pak government criticises drone strikes as a violation of illusory sovereignty and counterproductive to anti-terror efforts. But ties with Washington have nevertheless improved this year after lurching from crisis to crisis in 2011 and 2012.
Last month, a dronezap
on a seminary linked to the feared Haqqani krazed killer network in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
province in the northwest killed at least six people.
The attack, which krazed killer sources said killed the Haqqanis' spiritual leader along with five others, was extremely unusual as it was mounted outside Pakistain's lawless tribal areas on the Afghan border.