{"id":1852,"date":"2011-11-16T14:27:50","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T14:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=1852"},"modified":"2011-11-16T14:27:50","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T14:27:50","slug":"pakistan-drone-attacks-kill-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2011\/11\/16\/1852\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan drone attacks &#8216;kill 16&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/drone.nw.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/>Suspected US drones have fired four missiles at two compounds in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border, killing 16 people, Pakistani intelligence officials said.  <!--more-->  <br \/>The strikes occurred just before midnight on Tuesday in Bobar village in the South Waziristan tribal area, a stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban, said officials, speaking on condition of anonymity.<br \/>The two compounds were hit about 20 minutes apart, said the officials. It is unclear how many people were killed in each compound.<br \/>The Pakistani military conducted a large ground offensive against the Pakistani Taliban in South Waziristan in 2009, but group members have remained in the area and still carry out periodic attacks.<br \/>Earlier on Tuesday night, fighters attacked an army checkpoint in the Ladha area of South Waziristan with rockets, killing one soldier and wounding another, intelligence officials said.<br \/>The area where the drone strikes occurred is very remote and has not yet been cleared by the military, said the intelligence officials.<br \/>There has been at least one strike in this area before.<br \/>The US does not acknowledge the CIA-run drone programme in Pakistan publicly, but officials have said privately that the strikes have killed many senior al-Qaeda and Taliban commanders.<br \/>The Obama administration has ramped up the number of drone strikes in Pakistan&#8217;s rugged tribal region in the past few years. Most of the strikes have targeted al-Qaeda or Afghan Taliban fighters battling US forces in Afghanistan.<br \/>Pakistani officials have criticised the strikes as violations of the country&#8217;s sovereignty, but the government is widely believed to have supported the strikes in the past and even let the drones take off from bases inside Pakistan.<br \/><em><br \/>Source: Agencies<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suspected US drones have fired four missiles at two compounds in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border, killing 16 people, Pakistani intelligence officials 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-1852","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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