Awaz Apni

At least four people have been killed in a drone strike in South Waziristan on Sunday. As per the reports reaching here, an unmanned US aircraft fired four missiles at a house in Sararogha area of Shaktoi. It merits to mention that Shaktoi is the native place of late militants leader Baitullah Mehsud. Two days ago, US missiles destroyed a compound used by militants killing at least 16 militants in South Waziristan. The house of Haneef Masti Khel was targeted in the area. The militants were believed to be members of Moulana Nazir clan. At least four people were killed and five others injured in a drone attack by a US surveillance plane in South Waziristan Agency (SWA) area of Shaktoi Algad, Awaz Apni News reported Sunday. According to sources, the US spy planes fired at least four missiles on the hideouts of militants in Mehsud area of Shaktoi Algad, where four people were killed and another five injured. The tribes kick-started relief activities after the attack. The fli...

 Awaz Apni  PESHAWAR: A US drone fired four missiles into a compound reportedly used by terrorists in northwestern tribal belt on Saturday, killing at least 18 militants, security officials said. The missiles targeted the compound in Dwasarak village, about 40 kilometres (25 miles) west of Wana, the main town in South Waziristan district, a senior Pakistani security official who wished to remain anonymous told media. "At least 18 militants have been killed in this attack," he said adding that two US drones fired four missiles. Two intelligence officials, one in Wana and one based in Peshawar, also confirmed the attack and the death toll. South Waziristan, considered a militant stronghold, was the scene of a major Pakistani offensive last year. Dwasarak is close to the Afghan border in the Angoor Adda area of South Waziristan. Officials said militants belonging to local commander Maulana Halimullah were killed in the attack, the second time tha...

CNews ISLAMABAD: President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari and Afghan President Hamid Karzai in a joint press conference here vowed to struggle jointly for peace and stability in the region.The two leaders while answering the questions of media men in a press conference here said the two countries would work jointly to face the challenges posed by the terrorism.Zardari and Karzai vowed to protest over attacks on the innocent people and unanimously said that the US strikes would not be helpful in the war against terrorists. Asif Ali Zardari further said that he has accepted the Presidency of Pakistan in the name of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto and in the name of the martyrs of democracy.He thanked the people of Pakistan for their trust in him.He assured Afghanistan and all neighbouring countries that Pakistan intends to work with them for peace and prosperity.He called the government to take steps for filling the gap between the demand and supply.Afghan President Hamid Karzai earlier in his rema...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan army spokesman Major General Athar Abbas said that Wednesday's operation was an unprecedented violation of Pakistan’s geographical sovereignty and Pakistan reserves the right of retaliation with full force against any such action."In the past the other side, NATO ISAF, have been engaging the foreign militants present in the area and on this actionable intelligence they engage them through their Predators [drones]," he said. "But never before did a single incursion take place, which has serious consequences." The cross-border operation follows months of increased violence in eastern Afghanistan. U.S. commanders have blamed safe havens in Pakistani tribal areas for giving militants space to re-arm and plan attacks. But Major General Abbas said Wednesday's assault was especially worrying because there were no reports of militants in the area. He said such operations risked alienating local tribes whose support is vital for defeating Taliban ...

CNews RAWALPINDI: Reportedly, eleven militants have been killed and 15 to 20 were injured in an exchange of fire with security forces in South Waziristan Agency. According to ISPR, on the night between 26-27 August at about 2330 hours, around 75 to 100 militants attacked Tiarza Fort and Tiarza Bridge Checkpost in South Waziristan Agency. Security Forces responded effectively and repulsed the attack.

CNews NWFP: A suspected US missile strike has killed 10 militants at a training camp in a Pakistani tribal area, while 25 people died in fresh clashes near the Afghan border, officials said. The violence in the ethnic Pashtun tribal regions along the mountainous frontier comes amid mounting US pressure for Islamabad to tackle rebels who are launching attacks on international forces in Afghanistan. Four missiles hit the Islamist camp in the troubled South Waziristan region, which was run by a militant from the Hezb-i-Islami group of wanted Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, security officials said. "At least 10 militants were killed in the strikes" late Tuesday, a senior Pakistani security official said. "There were reports about the presence of Arab, Turkmen and local militants." "This is their work," he added, referring to US-led coalition forces deployed across the border in Afghanistan. In Kabul, the US military said the missiles were not fired by eith...

CNews MIRAMSHAH :US spy planes on Saturday morning flew over various border areas of Waziristan creating panic and distress among the people of the tribal region. According to reports the area that a US spy plane violated the Pakistani airspace and flew high on Syedgai, Miramshah, Mir Ali, Razmat and other towns of the agency.

CNews RAWALPINDI: Pakistan staged strong protest against the bombardment of US-led coalition forces on the Angorada area lies in Pakistan’s territory here on Friday. At least Pakistani six soldiers were wounded in a US-led coalition force bombardment in the country's border tribal area, said sources Friday. The latest incident of territorial violation took place in Angorada area of the South Waziristan tribal agency. According to security sources, the US-led coalition troops were conducting an operation in the Bermal area of Afghanistan against Taliban militants when more than a dozen mortar shells fell inside Pakistani territory Thursday night. They said one of the mortar shells hit a security check post that wounded six soldiers, and the rest of the mortar shells did not cause any casualties but damaged trees in the mountainous area.

CNews WANA: Extremists in South Waziristan have killed twenty-eight members of peace committee whereas 2 are reported missing. According to sources, extremists were kidnapped 30 members of the peace committee on Tuesday after a clash in Jandola in which 12 were killed and 15 sustained injuries. Twenty-eight out of 30 have been killed and their bodies have been recovered from Kariwam, an adjoining area of Jandola on Wednesday. Two members are still missing. The deceased were belonged to Bhattni tribe. Situation becomes tense in the area after the recovery of the bodies.

CNews BERLIN: German prosecutors said Friday they have arrested a 45-year-old German-Pakistani suspected of providing financial and logistical support to members of al-Qaida in the southern Afghanistan region.Federal prosecutors identified the man only as Aleem N., an ethnic Pakistani with German citizenship.He is suspected making four trips between April 2005 and June 2007 to Pakistan's border region with Afghanistan to deliver $5,850 and in three cases, additional equipment such as binoculars, night-vision goggles and radios to al-Qaida members in positions of responsibility, the prosecutors said in a statement.Police in the southwestern state of Rheinland-Palatinate arrested the man on Thursday in his home in Germersheim, the statement said.

CNews ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's interior ministry said Friday that Benazir Bhutto was killed after smashing her head on her car's sunroof while trying to duck, and that no bullet or shrapnel was found inside her. The ministry also said it had intercepted a phone call from a top Al-Qaeda figure congratulating a militant for the attack on her Thursday, and said there was "irrefutable evidence" the group was trying to destabilise the country. Bhutto's death after a suicide bomber blew himself up at her campaign rally has plunged this nuclear-armed Islamic nation into turmoil, but the ministry said she would have lived if only she had stayed inside her car. "If she had not come out of the vehicle, she would have been unhurt, as all the other occupants of the vehicle did not receive any injuries," ministry spokesman Brigadier Javed Cheema said. He said the post-mortem on the populist opposition leader, whose funeral earlier Friday was attended by hundreds of tho...

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...