PESHAWAR, Pakistan | Fri Apr 22, 2011 3:56 pm EDT
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - two U.S. unmanned plane four missiles at a house in Pakistan's North Waziristan region near the Afghan border on 25 fighters, Pakistani kill intelligence official said Friday.
The strike came two days after a visit to Islamabad by Admiral Mike Mullen, the top U.S. military official, in which he about links between Pakistani security agents and militant attack on the US led forces over the border in Afghanistan concern.
The drone strike occurred in Mir Ali, about 35 km (20 km) East of the region town of Miranshah.
A Pakistani intelligence official in the region, it refused be identified, said that the House was used as a militant hideout.
"they have surrounded the area and are not that someone to go there", the official said intelligence, referring to militant.
Twenty-five body had from the wreckage has been recovered and three women were among those killed, he said.
Other officials said some foreign fighters were among the dead but their numbers and nationalities could not be confirmed.
North Waziristan is a renowned sanctuary for al Qaeda and Taliban fighters.
Drone takes advantage of the United States attacks to target militants in recent years in Pakistan's lawless ethnic Pashtuns border.
The attacks are causing concern for the Pakistani Government, which says that civilian victims support for militancy fuel public anger and bolster.
During Mullen of's visit, said an official U.S., would the United States does not stop the drone attacks in Pakistan despite Pakistani objections.
Militant 10 soldiers kill a security post in the northwestern city you attacked, said security officials in the region.
About 30 soldiers who were post crew as militant attacked on Thursday, they said. Combat went for several hours.
Security forces have in recent years Pakistan Taliban fighters in several parts of the Northwest were fighting. The militants want to destabilize to impose harsh Islamic rule and the U.S. ally.
In 2009, the military from you and the neighbouring Swat Valley in a successful offensive disabled militant.
(Additional reporting by Junaid Khan in Mingora;) Writing by Kamran Haider; (Editing by Chris Albritton and Robert Birsel)
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