ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A us drone attack killed 23 people in North Waziristan, on Friday, Pakistani military officials said, in a strike against activists who seems to mean relentless pressure by the United States on military of Pakistan amidst increasing opposition to the strikes.
The strike came a day after the Chairman of the joint staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, met with Pakistani military Chief, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and asked that Pakistan more to fight militants who use North Waziristan as a base to attack the United States and NATOthe Afghanistan forces.
The attack was the second show of determination of the United States to continue drone attacks since the head of the Agency of Pakistan, lieutenant-general Ahmed Shuja Pasha spy, met this month in Washington with Leon e. Panetta Director of Central Intelligence Agency to ask for an end to the strike.
Friday attack could further fuel anti-UAV among the Pakistani public sentiment. An official of the Government in the North Waziristan said Pakistani journalists in five children and four women were among the 23 who were killed.
Finger attack forces of a militant commander, Hafiz Gul Bahadur, whose loyalists across the border in Afghanistan to fight US troops and NATO, said the representative of the Government.
Mr. Bahadur works under a peace agreement with the Pakistani army who ensures that the militants under his control do not attack the Pakistani soldiers but to concentrate solely on Allied soldiers.
Those killed Friday were collected in Spinwam, an area near Mir Ali in North Waziristan which was become a hub for activists in recent months, the official said.
In the Crescent public war of nerves between the American and Pakistani armies, the Pakistani Government is allowing a planned anti-NATO protest to go ahead in Peshawar this weekend. A political leader, Imran Khan, asked the protesters to stage a sit-in Saturday to block trucks carrying NATO supplies for the war in Afghanistan. Trucks travel through Peshawar since the port of Karachi to Torkham, the gateway in Afghanistan.
The drone Friday strike came after that Admiral Mullen has delivered a particularly rigorous message during his visit here, said publicly that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, directly supported and encouraged spy agency the activists Haqqani network in North Waziristan. Activists of the network are responsible for a large number of us losses in Afghanistan, American commanders say.
Since long the network United States Haqqani was supported by the Pakistani spy agency, but he said rarely publicly.
In a separate episode, between the Pakistani army and the Taliban, 16 Pakistani Frontier Corps troops were killed Thursday when their checkpoint was invaded by 150 activists near the Afghanistan border, a Pakistani security official said.
The battle continued for 12 hours to Kharkai in the North of Dir district in the Province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa formerly Northwest Frontier Province. Two officers sent to reinforce troops were killed in an ambush, said the official.
The attack by militants of Pakistani soldiers came as the army launched a renewed assault in Mohmand, part of the tribal areas that have proven to be difficult for Pakistan to take army.
In a report to the Congress this month, the administration of the Obama complained that the Pakistani army had "no clear path" to the insurgency in Pakistan and quote the attempts to eradicate militants in Mohmand as an illustration. The army "was not for the third time in two years" to clear militants of Mohmand, said the report.
150 Activists who carried out the Thursday attack appeared to have fled the assault in Afghanistan and then returned to Pakistan to hit the soldiers.
General Kayani, the head of the Pakistani army, went to Mohmand Thursday for the second phase of a new assault on the Suran, a narrow valley on the border with the Afghanistan.
In the past months, the U.S. forces and NATO over the Mohmand border helped Pakistan to attack the militants as they fled in Afghanistan, Pakistani security officer, said. But the Pakistani militants who attacked in Dir Thursday appeared to have escaped before the assault on the Suran start and were allowed to return to Pakistan by elements of the Afghan army who were helping, the official said.
Jane Perlez reported in Islamabad and Ismail Khan in Peshawar, Pakistan.
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