ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - American drone attack killed 23 people in the North Waziristan on Friday, Pakistani military said in a strike against militant, relentless pressure from the United States about to mean that Pakistan's military in the midst of increasing resistance to such strikes.
Strikes came a day after the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, met with the Pakistani military, General Ashfaq Kayani Parvez, and asked that more fighters fight Pakistan to the North Waziristan as a starting point, to United States and NATO troops in Afghanistan.
The attack was the second of the United States determination continues to drone attacks since the head of Pakistan's spy Pasha, met Agency, Lieutenant General Ahmed Shuja this month in Washington with Director Leon E. Panetta by the Central Intelligence Agency to halt the strike order.
Friday's attack could further anti-drone mood the Pakistani public fuel. An official in the North Waziristan reporters Pakistani that were five children and four women among the 23 who were killed.
The attack from forces militant commander, Hafiz Gul Bahadur, highlighted cross its loyalists in Afghanistan American and NATO troops to the border, the official said Government.
Mr Bahadur works under a peace agreement with the Pakistani army, which ensures that militant under his control focus not Pakistani soldiers but is only on the Allied soldiers attack to do.
The victims Friday in Spinwam, an area near Mir Ali in North Waziristan collected were the hub of a fighter in the past few months, had become, said the official.
In the growing public nerves between the US and the Pakistani army is Pakistan's Government a planned NATO protest this weekend in Peshawar set allows. A political leader, Imran Khan, has demonstrators to stage a sit-in Saturday to the block truck with NATO supplies called for the war in Afghanistan. The truck travels through Peshawar from the port of Karachi to Torkham, the gateway to Afghanistan.
Strike the drone came on Friday after Mullen an unusually tough message during his transmitted visit Admiral here, to say that Pakistan's spy directly support agency, inter-services intelligence, and the Haqqani favours network of militants in North Waziristan. The network are responsible for many of the American victims in Afghanistan fighters, American commanders say.
The United States has long held that the network was Haqqani of the Pakistani Spy supports Agency, but it is so rarely publicly says.
In a separate episode, between the Pakistani armed forces and the Taliban, 16 soldiers of Pakistan border Corps were killed Thursday when their checkpoint was overrun by 150 militants near the border with Afghanistan, a Pakistani security official said.
The battle still close to 12 hours at Kharkai in the Northern District of province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, formerly North-West Frontier Province. Sent out to the troops to reinforce two officers, were killed in an ambush, said the officials.
The attack which came as the Army went militants on Pakistani soldiers have proved difficult on a new attack in Mohmand, part of the tribal areas that hold for the Pakistani army.
In a report to the Congress this month, the Obama complained administration that the Pakistani army had to defeat the revolt in Pakistan "no clear path" towards, and cited the failed efforts to eradicate the militants of Abdul Ahad Mohmand as an illustration. The army "was otherwise for the third time in two years" of Mohmand, militant delete according to the report.
The 150 terrorists, which was carried out the attack on Thursday the Army attack on Afghanistan fled and then again in Pakistan the soldiers blow to enable.
General Kayani, the head of the Pakistani military, Abdul Ahad Mohmand visited on Thursday for the second stage of a new attack a narrow valley on the border with Afghanistan on the SURAN, focused.
In the last few months American and NATO have to troops on the other side of the border of Abdul Ahad Mohmand Pakistan militant attack, as she escaped in Afghanistan, Pakistani security officials said helped. But the official said the Pakistani fighters who to escape you prior to the attack on the Suran began and were attacked on Thursday again seemed in Pakistan by elements in the Afghan army, which support them.
Jane Perlez reported from Islamabad and Ismail Khan from Peshawar, Pakistan.
