US-led attack on Taliban hideout kills 6 in Pak

by Sanjay Jha | September 8, 2008 at 03:03 am

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Pakistan's north western front is becoming sanctury of taliban terrorists and now US led NATO forces have intensified attacks to flush out the militants. Since last week, the tribal belt has witnessed a sharp increase in attacks by drones operated by US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan. More than 40 people have died in these attacks. Pakistan has protested attacks in its terrority and said to stop such attacks. But again today US used drone plane to attack taliban hideouts.

Six persons, including three women, were killed and 20 others injured in a missile strike by unmanned US drones on a house and a seminary linked to a key Taliban commander Jalauddin Haqqani in Pakistan's restive North Waziristan tribal region on Monday.

The suspected drones operated by the US-led forces in Afghanistan fired six to seven guided missiles at the seminary in Tanda Darpakhel, two kilometres from Miranshah, the headquarters of North Waziristan.

Four missiles hit a madrassa run by senior Taliban leader Jalaluddin Haqqani while three hit nearby houses. State-run APP news agency quoted official sources and local residents as saying.

Three female seminary students and three labourers were among the dead, official sources said, but other sources said that among the killed were three militants.

Whether Haqqani, who is a close aide of fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Omar was present in the area or not at the time of the strike, was not known.

The Pasthun leader of Khost in Afghanistan has not seen since the fall of the Taliban regime in Kabul in 2001.