Miranshah: At least eight people were killed and several others injured when a United States (US) drone fired missiles on a house in North Waziristan area of Pakistan tribal region bordering Afghanistan, here on Saturday.
Sources told TheNewsTribe, the largest independent and bilingual (English & Urdu) News Website in Pakistan and USA that the unmanned plane fired two missiles on a house in Darai Nishtar area in Miran Shah Bazar of the agency.
“The rescuers were facing difficulties to reach the spot as more drones were flying in the area,” they added
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari had told the US Special Envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan Marc Grossman on last Friday that drone attacks inside Pakistan are useless and counterproductive.
Prior to this, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Kharhad also told Grossmnan that the US was not listening to Pakistani demands of halt in US drone attacks.
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