Pakistani officials say a suspected U.S. missile strike has killed at least three people along the Afghan border.
Saturday's strike in the town of Miran Shah was
the second such attack in the North Waziristan tribal region this week.
On Thursday, officials said two missiles hit a home reportedly
belonging to Taliban sympathizers, killing at least nine people,
including Arabs.
Pakistani leaders have denounced a number of suspected U.S. missile
strikes against al-Qaida and Taliban militant targets in the country's
northwest.
Elsewhere in the region, mourners attended funerals today for more than
30 anti-Taliban tribesmen killed during a suicide attack near the
Afghan border on Friday.
Officials say members of a tribal council in the Orakzai district had gathered to create a militia (a lashkar) to fight pro-Taliban militants, when the bombing occurred.
In the nearby Bajaur tribal area, officials say four more anti-Taliban
tribal elders were found beheaded today. It was the second killing of
tribal elders this week in Bajaur, where the military is carrying out
an offensive against al-Qaida and Taliban militants. The bodies of four
other tribal elders were found on Thursday.
Officials say local tribesmen today destroyed several homes of
suspected Taliban militants in Bajaur and other tribal areas, in
response to the violence.
Also today, NATO says its forces in Afghanistan fired at militants in
Pakistan on two separate occasions, after the militants were spotted
trying to launch a rocket attack at NATO's base in Afghanistan. The
Pakistani military later confirmed five militants were killed. Details,
including the location of the incidents, were not released.