Lethal drone strike we can anger in Pakistan - New York Times fuel pump

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.

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U.S. drone strike kills 25 in Pakistan's North Waziristan - Reuters

By Haji Mujtaba

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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Pakistan drone strikes kill 25

U.S. drones fired 10 missiles at a house in a Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border, killing at least 25 people Friday, said Pakistani intelligence officials.

The strike came a day after the head of the Pakistani army has denounced these attacks and could also sour already deteriorating relations between Washington and Islamabad.

Also Friday, hundreds of activists attacked a control point, in a Northwestern Pakistani District along the border during the night and in the morning, killing 14 security troops, officials said — a show of insurgents continued strength despite the offensives of the army against them.

U.S. missiles more recent success Spinwam village in Waziristan in the North, a tribal region home to Islamic militants targeting American troops and NATO in Afghanistan. The three said civilian intelligence officials were suspected of being among the dead, and also several people were injured. The number of reported deaths was relatively high for a US missile strike.

The United States rarely acknowledges missiles CIA - run program, which means that the usual sources of confirmation of the strikes are responsible for Pakistani intelligence, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they do not have permission to speak to the media. This information of the region is virtually impossible to verify independently. The region is remote, rugged and dangerous, and access is restricted by law.

Although Pakistan has long denounced the missile attack fired the drone as a violation of its sovereignty, it is widely accepted to cooperate secretly with at least some of the attacks.

But relations between Pakistan and the United States were sunk to new lows this year after that a contractor of the US CIA in January shot and killed two Pakistani, he said, were trying to steal. A March missile that reportedly killed dozens of innocent tribes developed Pakistani leaders angry.

During a visit here Wednesday, Admiral Mike Mullen, the Chairman of the U.S. joint chiefs of staff, accused spy service military-run of Pakistan to maintain links with the network Haqqani, a major Afghan Taliban faction.

Pakistan's military-run Inter-Services Intelligence spy has agency links to the leaders of the network dating back to the Soviet occupation of the 1980s of the Afghanistan, when the Group has also been supported by Washington. But after the attacks of September 11, 2001, Pakistan has insisted he cut these links.

However, many analysts and US officials suspect Islamabad may be trying to maintain its links with the Haqqanis so that it can be used as a means to retain influence in Afghanistan - and keep a rampart against archrival India - after the American leave.

A Pakistani army statement later dismissed what he called "negative propaganda" by the United States, while the Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani said offensive multiple of its troops against insurgents in northwestern groups are evidence of Pakistan's "national resolve to defeat terrorism."

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