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CNews MIRANSHAH: At least seven people were killed in attack by US spy predator plane in North Waziristan Agency on Thursday.According to preliminary reports, the death toll is feared to rise.The US drone attacked Tappi village of North Waziristan Agency. It is being said the house of Maulvi Sahar Gul was attacked.According to a foreign news agency claim, the deceased include at least six foreigners.

CNews MIRANSHAH: As many as four check posts will be made defunct tonight in North Waziristan in the wake of successful negotiations held among jirga, security forces and local Taliban.Besides, all the roads in Mir Ali are being re-opened by removing all obstructions on them and lifting the curfew from the area.According to Jirga sources, Jirga organized fruitful talks with the local Taliban, after which they held negotiations with the government office-bearers; after these dialogues, the decision regarding removing the four security check posts from North Waziristan tonight was taken.Two check posts among them are situated in Miranshah area of North Waziristan and the other two are located in Mir Ali.According to Jirga sources, the government gave its consent to ceasefire.

Cnews MIRANSHAH: The local Taliban released Saturday the 30 abducted security personnel in South Waziristan on Saturday morning. According to the sources, the local Taliban had arrested forty days ago more than two hundred security officials while they were en route from Wana to Laddah in South Waziristan. The Taliban released thirty security personnel and handed them their four vehicles. According to sources, Mehsud tribes were making attempts to get these security officials released for last many days. According to sources, the attempts are underway for the release of other security men as well.

CNews MIRANSHAH: Around 50 Pakistani soldiers are missing after gunbattles with Islamic militants in a troubled tribal area that have already claimed 80 lives since the weekend, the army said Monday. The soldiers have been out of radio contact since the morning in rugged North Waziristan, a region bordering Afghanistan where the United States says Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network and the Taliban are regrouping. News of the missing soldiers comes as a fresh blow to the army, with militants already holding more than 200 Pakistani soldiers in another part of the insurgency-plagued ethnic Pashtun tribal belt. Violence has spiked in the troubled region since Pakistani security forces besieged and then raided the Al-Qaeda-linked Red Mosque in Islamabad in July -- an operation that Osama bin Laden has urged militants to avenge. "We have reports of around 50 troops missing. They are out of communications and their whereabouts have not been found," chief military spokesman Major...

CNews MIRANSHAH: Security forces operation against miscreants in Mir Ali area of North Waziristan was continued on Monday. In the operation that started Sunday morning 60 miscreants and 20 security men have been killed. After attacks on the forces, ground troops with support of helicopters launched operation against miscreants in Mir Ali area of North Waziristan and targeted hideouts of the militants, official sources said. The forces have killed 60 miscreants, while 20 security men were martyred in battles. According to eyewitnesses clashes between the forces and miscreants were continued in Anso Khel, Khadi, Hyderkhel and Khushhali areas adjoining to Mir Ali till the late night. Several shells during the clashes landed in houses resulting in deaths of several women and children, the witnesses added.

MIRANSHAH: A roadside explosive device ripped through a passenger minibus in Pakistan's troubled tribal belt bordering Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least 14 people, security officials said. The blast happened near Mir Ali, the second biggest town in insurgency-hit North Waziristan district, on a road that is frequently used by Pakistani military convoys. "The bus hit an explosive device planted on the road by militants, destroying it completely. Fourteen people died on the spot and five injured were taken to hospital," a security official said. The attack happened hours after a pre-dawn clash between pro-Taliban militants and soldiers near the same town left 10 rebels and two troops dead, the military said. A peace deal signed between the Pakistani government and militants in September 2006 in North Waziristan -- one of seven semi-autonomous tribal zones -- broke down in July. Violence has spiked in Pakistan since the collapse of the deal and after Pakistani force...

MIRANSHAH: Eight security men injured when unidentified persons targeted security forces check posts in North Waziristan.According to sources, gunmen attacked security forces check posts in Mir Ali, Jehler and Khajori areas of North Waziristan with rockets and automatic weapons. Eight security officials sustained injuries in these attacks.Security forces retaliated at attackers hideouts but no causality was reported.