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Wazoo Agency on Saturday night raising the toll from a series of attacks this week to 29.Intelligence sources said that a US drone fired two missiles at a vehicle in Maraga area of Shawal tehsil of the troubled North Waziristan Agency bordering Afghanistan. Four suspected murderous Moslems including a commander have died in the strike, they added.
Sources also said that the Taliban capo has been identified as Mustafa, who they claimed belonged to Hafiz Gul Bahadur
...a member of the Madda Khel clan of the Uthmanzai Waziris. Educated in a Deobandi madrassa located in Multan, he is affiliated with the Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) political party. Upon the formation of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in December 2007, he was announced as the group's overall naib amir under Baitullah Mehsud, who was based in South Wazoo, but has largely distanced himself from the TTP due to rivalries with the Mehsuds and disagreements about the TTP's attacks against the Pak state..
group.
The incident, however, could not be independently verified as access of journalists is restricted in the area.
Earlier in the day, a US drone strike had killed four suspected murderous Moslems and left several others injured on the Pak-Afghan border area near Khyber Agency
's Tirah valley.Official sources said that the drone targeted Death Eater hideouts in the Cancharo Kandoa area on the Afghan side.
The village is right on the zero-line but the area which was targeted falls under the Afghan jurisdiction.
The identity of the dead murderous Moslems is yet to be ascertained.
Khyber and North Waziristan are among Pakistain's seven semi-autonomous regions governed by tribal laws and lies near the Afghan border. The Taliban and other al Qaeda-linked groups, who stage attacks in both Pakistain and Afghanistan, are known to have strongholds in the zone.
The Pak military launched a major anti-militant offensive, Zarb-e-Azb
..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)...
in North Waziristan in June and say they have killed more than 1,000 so far, with 86 soldiers losing their lives in the operation.
Drone attacks are widely unpopular across Pakistain and according to survey conducted in June this year, 66 per cent of the country's citizens oppose these strikes.