{"id":1394,"date":"2011-03-17T13:13:16","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T13:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2011-03-17T13:13:16","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T13:13:16","slug":"dozens-die-as-us-drone-hits-pakistan-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2011\/03\/17\/1394\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens die as US drone hits Pakistan home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"drone.nw\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/drone.nw.jpg\" width=\"229\" height=\"195\" \/>Missiles fired by a suspected US drone in Pakistan&#8217;s North Waziristan province, near the border with Afghanistan, have reportedly killed at least 35 Taliban fighters, officials have said.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The drone fired two missiles in quick succession at a residential compound on Thursday, where a group of some three dozen alleged Taliban fighters were meeting, Pakistani intelligence officials told the Associated Press.<br \/>The strikes occurred three minutes apart and took place in the Datta Khel area of the North Waziristan tribal region &#8211; the main sanctuary for Al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters along the Afghan border.<br \/>&#8220;Militants were using this house as a training centre and used to meet here,&#8221; a security official in Peshawar told the AFP news agency.<br \/>He said 10 other fighters were critically injured.<br \/>US drones have frequently targeted Datta Khel, known as a stronghold of the Taliban commander and al-Qaeda-linked warlord Hafiz Gul Bahadur, who has focused his efforts on fighting foreign troops in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Increased strikes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Missile attacks &#8211; believed to be carried out by unmanned drone aircraft launched either from Afghanistan or from inside Pakistan &#8211; have doubled in the area last year.<br \/>There were more than 100 drone strikes, killing over 670 people in 2010, compared with 45 strikes that killed 420 in 2009, according to an AFP tally.<br \/>There have been around 20 attacks so far this year. Most of the recent strikes have been in North Waziristan.<br \/>Washington does not acknowledge firing the missiles and reporters are barred from visiting the area, making it difficult to verify who is being killed.<br \/>Pakistani leaders formally protest the strikes, but its intelligence agencies are widely believed to co-operate in some of them.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Al Jazeera and agencies<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missiles fired by a suspected US drone in Pakistan&#8217;s North Waziristan province, near the border with Afghanistan, have reportedly killed at least 35 Taliban fighters, officials have said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c59-islamic-world"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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