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At least 21 people including women and children were killed Monday in a missile strike by suspected US drones on a Pakistan tribal town near the Afghan border, officials told AFP.
Explosions reportedly caused by missiles fired from drone aircraft hit a house and seminary linked to a key Taliban commander in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing at least nine people, officials and witnesses said.
Several explosions, reportedly caused by missile strikes from unmanned U.S. drone aircraft, hit a house and seminary linked to a key Taliban commander in northwestern Pakistan, officials said.
The second edition of the Twenty20 Champions League will be held in September-October 2009, organisers said on Monday, dealing another blow to the crisis-ridden Champions Trophy in Pakistan.
At least 11 people including women and children were killed Monday in a missile strike by suspected US drones on a Pakistan tribal town near the Afghan border, security officials told AFP.
At least three militants were killed Monday in a missile strike by suspected US drones on a Pakistan tribal town near the Afghan border, security and local officials said.
Four missiles fired from an American drone hit a large compound in North Waziristan belonging to one of Pakistan?s most prominent Taliban leaders.
Several explosions, reportedly caused by missile strikes, rocked the Miran Shah area in Pakistan's troubled northwest Monday, injuring at least 12 people, officials said.
A missile strike in northwestern Pakistan has killed three people and wounded 12 others, sources told CNN on Monday.
At least 10 militants were killed afterclashes with troops who pounded their suspected hideouts in restive northwestern Pakistan, the military said Monday.
A 16-year-old boy wearing a suicide bomber jacket and carrying a hand grenade was arrested Monday in an army cantonment area in Pakistan's troubled northwest, police said.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Several people died Monday in Pakistan's North Waziristan region in alleged U.S. drone missile attacks, witnesses claimed.
Missile struck the commander's compound in North Waziristan, killing at least nine. The intended target of the attack, Jalaluddin Haqqani, was apparently not there at the time. U.S. forces made an apparently unsuccessful attempt today to assassinate a prominent Taliban-linked commander who sometimes shelters in Pakistan's tribal areas, officials said.
Pakistani security officials were questioning a man freed from the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay and returned to his homeland more than six years after his detention, a senior official said Monday.
Sept. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Pakistan's Asif Ali Zardari is set to take over as president of a country with the world's riskiest debt, the weakest currency in its history and a stock market so depressed that the exchange ordered a freeze on price declines.
Missiles fired by U.S. drones killed 16 people, including Pakistani and Afghan Taliban fighters, on Monday in a strike targeting a religious school founded by an old friend of Osama bin Laden, intelligence officials and Pakistani villagers said.
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